Unholy fury : Whitlam and Nixon at war / James Curran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curran, James, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitlam, Gough, 1916-2014.

Whitlam, Gough.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.

Nixon, Richard M.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Australia.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.

Australia--Foreign relations--United States.

Australia.

United States--Foreign relations--Australia.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press Digital, 2015.

Summary:

Annotation. In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon, clashed over the end of the Vietnam war and the shape of a new Asia. A relationship that had endured the heights of the Cold War veered dangerously off course and seemed headed for destruction. Never beforeandmdash;or sinceandmdash;has the alliance sunk to such depths. Drawing on sensational new evidence from once top-secret American and Australian records, this book portrays the bitter clash between these two leaders and their competing visions of the world. As the Nixon White House went increasingly on the defensive in early 1973, reeling from the lethal drip of the Watergate revelations, the first Labor prime minister in twenty-three years looked to redefine ANZUS and Australia's global stance. It was a heady brew, and not one the Americans were used to. The result was a fractured alliance, and an American president enraged, seemingly hell bent on tearing apart the fabric of a treaty that had become the first principle of Australian foreign policy.

Contents:

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1: 'On the Right Side': Nixon in Australia; 2: 'Put on Notice': Lessons from America; 3: 'Entangled': Labor's Cold War Dilemma; 4: 'The Most Generous ... Idealistic Nation': Whitlam and the Americans; 5: 'Pathfinder for Nixon': Whitlam's China Coup; 6: 'An Absolute Outrage': The Christmas Bombings; 7: On Nixon's 'Shit List': A 'Downward Slide' in Relations; 8: American 'Trouble Shooter': Marshall Green Comes to Canberra; 9: 'One Hour' in Washington: Defining the New 'American Connection'; 10: 'Heating up the Crucible': An Alliance in Peril Conclusion: 'Almost Incomprehensible'References; Select bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index; Picture Section

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780522861754

052286175X

OCLC:

1555347164