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A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk.
A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing…
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It's well known that in the 20th century Australia reoriented its dependence on a large northern hemisphere power from Britain to America. The shift in military and security cooperation has been central. Undisputed but harder to pin down has been the cultural realignment. Yves Rees gives us a new, historically rich account of how this reorientation has happened. Based on exhaustive research on a large cohort of Australian women who travelled to the United States between 1910 and 1960 for educational, professional and career reasons, Rees shapes the book around detailed stories of ten women. The ten were all achievers,…
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