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A review by scribepub
Dissent: The Student Press in 1960s Australia by Graeme Davison, Sally Percival Wood
You know you’re old when it needs an historian to evoke the years of your youth. Thank you for your sterling efforts, Sally Percival Wood, for bringing the ’60s back to life so vividly that I can now pretend to remember them.
Phillip Adams, AO
Sally Percival Wood has done our cultural history a great favour … Her deep and broad interrogations yield a coherent story of social change, much of it intriguing in her telling, which adds up to a powerful rejection of the reactionary dismissal of [the era].
Phillip Frazer, founder of Go-Set, Revolution, High Times, Rolling Stone (Australia), and The Digger.
Dissent is a welcome and overdue contribution to Australia’s experience of the global 1960s. Its wide-ranging narrative and excellent storytelling will no doubt prove foundational to future research in the field, and is a testament to Wood’s long and productive career in public history.
Jon Piccini, Australian Journal of Politics and History
Phillip Adams, AO
Sally Percival Wood has done our cultural history a great favour … Her deep and broad interrogations yield a coherent story of social change, much of it intriguing in her telling, which adds up to a powerful rejection of the reactionary dismissal of [the era].
Phillip Frazer, founder of Go-Set, Revolution, High Times, Rolling Stone (Australia), and The Digger.
Dissent is a welcome and overdue contribution to Australia’s experience of the global 1960s. Its wide-ranging narrative and excellent storytelling will no doubt prove foundational to future research in the field, and is a testament to Wood’s long and productive career in public history.
Jon Piccini, Australian Journal of Politics and History