LEADER 03832nam 22006373 450 001 9910585946703321 005 20240424230217.0 010 $a9781760465094 010 $a1760465097 035 $a(CKB)5580000000317920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6970688 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6970688 035 $a(OCoLC)1306244581 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91371 035 $a(Perlego)3472898 035 $a(oapen)doab91371 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000317920 100 $a20220715d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPersons of Interest $eAn Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCanberra$cANU Press$d2022 210 1$aCanberra :$cANU Press,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 online resource (412 pages) 225 1 $aANU Lives Series in Biography 311 08$a9781760465087 311 08$a1760465089 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. Courting controversy -- 2. Cecily's travels with Judith Wright -- 3. A shared heritage -- 4. John's father: A radical, mission-driven Methodist -- 5. Embracing opportunities -- 6. Paradise lost -- 7. Honeymoon in dangerous times -- 8. The sinking of the Arandora Star -- 9. A remarkable rise in the public service -- 10. The Burton plot: Reconstruction and Nugget Coombs -- 11. Domesticity and babies -- 12. Australia on the world stage -- 13. Farming with an 'accommodating wife' -- 14. A controversial head of department -- 15. Reshaping Australia's foreign policy -- 16. The Gnomes of Melbourne -- 17. Political suicide -- 18. John's short stint as high commissioner in Ceylon -- 19. The beginning of the end of a marriage -- 20. Cecily's life-changing encounter -- 21. China: Neither 'dead nor red' -- 22. Paying the price for a mission of peace -- 23. An interlude: Farming the Burton way -- 24. Holding it together -- 25. The Petrov inquiry -- 26. Indonesia with ASIO in tow -- 27. A shift to the city: Enterprises and infidelity -- 28. The Snowy Mountains bus, bubble cars and other ventures -- 29. A family in crisis -- 30. A love triangle -- 31. Staging musicals: 'The Girl' and 'The Bloke' -- 32. Turmoil -- 33. The breakup -- 34. Tugs of war of love and divorce -- 35. Looking to Jung -- 36. Coming into her own: Counselling Cecily style -- 37. Revisiting relationship difficulties -- 38. John's 'real career' -- 39. Coming full circle: Cecily, Robert, John and all -- 40. A family shattered: Loss of Clare -- 41. Blue autumn: Cecily passes -- Select bibliography. 330 $aA world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress ... This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre- and post-World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations tried to remake the world. 410 0$aANU Lives Series in Biography 517 $aPersons of Interest 606 $aAutobiography: historical, political & military$2bicssc 606 $aAustralasian & Pacific history$2bicssc 610 $aJohn Burton 610 $aAustralian Department of External Affairs 610 $aASIO 610 $amemoir 610 $aautobiography 610 $aCanberra 615 7$aAutobiography: historical, political & military 615 7$aAustralasian & Pacific history 676 $a994.04092 700 $aBurton$b Pamela$01147115 701 $aEdwards$b Meredith$g(Meredith Ann)$01436280 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910585946703321 996 $aPersons of Interest$93594765 997 $aUNINA