Australian Citizen

Herbert Brookes 1867-1963

by Rohan Rivett

Melbourne University Press, 1965, [First Edition], [SIGNED], black and white photographic plates, black and white illustrations, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, Signed by author on title page, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and creasing (see photographs)

“Australians in the 1920s thought of Herbert Brookes as the man who led incensed thousands up Collins Street in 1918.  Standing on a car roof outside Parliament House, while the crowd roared approval, he demanded from the Prime Minister, ‘Billy” Hughes, beside him, the prosecution for seditious utterances of Dr Daniel Mannix, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.
Son a teenage orphan who set out for Bendigo’s goldfields with £9 in his pocket, Herbert Brookes was a radical with vision ahead of his time.  Mining engineer, first full Australian envoy to the United States, Brookes was a tireless donor and fighter for community causes.”