{"product_id":"born-in-1960-pb-ron-williams-9780648771678","title":"Born in 1960? (PB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMORE INFORMATION ON THESE BOOKS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past 13 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a social history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1968, with one book for each year. Thus there are 30 books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo capture the material for each book, the author, Ron Williams, worked his way through the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age\/Argus day-by-day, and picked out the best stories, ideas and trivia. He then wrote them up into 176 pages of a year-book. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe writes in a direct conversational style, he has avoided statistics and charts, and has produced easily-read material that is entertaining, and instructive, and charming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey are invaluable as gifts for birthdays, Christmas, and anniversaries, and for the oldies who are hard to buy for. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese books are available at all major retailers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNote. Throughout this book, I rely a lot on reproducing Letters from the newspapers. Whenever I do this, I put the text in a different font, and indent it a little, and make the font somewhat smaller. I do not edit the text at all. The same is true for the News Items at the start of each Chapter. That is, I do not correct spelling or if the text gets at all garbled, I do not correct it. It's just as it was seen in the Papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSecond Note. The material for this book, when it comes from newspapers, is reported as it was seen at the time. If the benefit of hindsight over the years changes things, then I might record that in my Comments. The info reported thus reflects matters as they were seen in 1949. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThird Note. Let me also apologise in advance to anyone I might offend. In a work such as this, it is certain some people will think I got some things wrong. I am sure that I did, but please remember, all of this is only my opinion. And really, my opinion does not matter one little bit in the scheme of things.  I hope you will say \"silly old bugger\", and shrug your shoulders, and read on. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ron Williams","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43911812743411,"sku":"9780648771678","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780648771678.jpg?v=1695937902","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/born-in-1960-pb-ron-williams-9780648771678","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}