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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly reviews ‘Crackpots, Ratbags and Rebels: A swag of Aussie eccentrics’ by Robert Holden and ‘Up Close: 28 lives of extraordinary Australians’ by Peter Wilmoth

December 2005–January 2006, no. 277 01 December 2005
We’re all interested in people; misanthropy is not trendy. Contemporary interest in people may be manifested by the success of reality television, the media coverage given to celebrities, and books such as these, which set out to investigate people and what makes them tick. Robert Holden’s Crackpots, Ratbags and Rebels: A Swag of Aussie Eccentrics is a breezy trawl through a number of charact ... (read more)