The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe

Terry Irving

A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the world's first study of parliamentary socialism. At the end of the Firs...