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2011
    A ‘thoughtful book … Curran and Ward show skill in handling the history of ideas’.
    Geoffrey Blainey,
Spectator Australia
    CURTIN’S EMPIRE

(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
    â€˜a fine and important book … sheds new light on the shadowy and evasive Curtin’.
    Hugh White,
American Review
    â€˜an elegant mix of scholarly research and accessible prose … an important addition to Australia’s history’.
    Canberra Times
    â€˜Curran is one of a number of historians who have identified this phenomenon of British race patriotism, which exercised such a powerful influence in this first half of the last century and is so incomprehensible today.’
    Stuart Macintyre,
Australian Book Review

UNHOLY
FURY
    WHITLAM AND NIXON AT WAR
    JAMES CURRAN

 
    For Priscilla, Pia and Ella
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    First published 2015
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    National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
    Curran, James, 1973- author.
Unholy fury: Whitlam and Nixon at war/James Curran.
    9780522868203 (paperback)
9780522861754 (ebook)
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Whitlam, Gough, 1916–2014.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913–1994.
Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Australia.
Vietnam War, 1961–1975—United States.
Australia—Foreign relations—United States.
United States—Foreign relations—Australia.
    327.94073

 
    â€˜He’s one of the peaceniks … [and] certainly putting the
Australians on a very, very dangerous path.’
    PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON ON GOUGH WHITLAM, DECEMBER 1972
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    â€˜For all its enduring importance, adherence to ANZUS
does not constitute a foreign policy.’
    GOUGH WHITLAM, JANUARY 1973
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    â€˜He is a bastard.’
    HENRY KISSINGER ON GOUGH WHITLAM, JULY 1974

 
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Archives
    Details of specific items can be found in the references on pages 315–355.
    Australian
    National Archives of Australia, NAA, Canberra
    A1838, Department of External Affairs, Central Office, 1948–70.
    A1838, Department of Foreign Affairs, Central Office, 1971–78.
    A5619, Prime Minister’s Department, Cabinet Files, 1968–71.
    M4322, Papers of Sir Keith Waller.
    CP99, Papers of Edward Gough Whitlam.
    M1356, Personal Papers of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
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    National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra
    John Gorton Papers, MS 7984.
    Robert Menzies Papers, MS 4936.
    James Plimsoll Papers, MS 8084.
    William McMahon Papers, MS 3926.
    ORAL TRC 314, Oral History Interview, Sir Keith Waller with JDB Miller.
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    Whitlam Institute, University of Western Sydney
    Whitlam Institute E-Collection, www.whitlam.org
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    Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, Adelaide
    Personal Papers of RJL Hawke.
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    Overseas
    National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland
    RG 59, General Records of the Department of State.
    RG 59, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Island Affairs, Office of Australian and New Zealand Affairs.
    RG 59, Lot Files, Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs: Office of the Assistant Secretary, Subject Files,