Donald Horne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian journalist and academic
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Place of Birth: Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia
About Donald Horne
- Donald Richmond Horne (26 December 1921 – 8 September 2005) was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals, from the 1960s until his death. Horne was a prolific author who published four novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis.
- He also edited The Bulletin, The Observer and Quadrant.
- His best known work was The Lucky Country (1964), an evaluation of Australian society that questioned many traditional attitudes: "Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck."
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