Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Paul Strangio
Paul Strangio is emeritus professor of politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and specialises in political leadership and political parties. He is the author and editor of a dozen books, including Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns (MUP, 2002); winner of the 2013 Australian Political Studies Association Henry Mayer Prize for the best book on Australian politics, Neither Power Nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in Victoria (MUP, 2012); with Paul 't Hart and James Walter, Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction (The Miegunyah Press, 2016); and with Paul 't Hart and James Walter winner of the 2019 Australian Political Studies Association Henry Mayer Prize for the best book on Australian Politics, The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949-2016 (The Miegunyah Press, 2017). One of the country's leading scholarly commentators on politics, Paul has written more than one hundred commentary pieces for publications, including the Age and the Conversation.
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The Alchemy of Leadership
Paul Strangio
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The Pivot of Power
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Settling the Office
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Neither Power Nor Glory
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Confusion
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