MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aDU117.2.S36$bF57 2003
082 04 $a324.29407$221
100 1 $aFitzgerald, Ross,$d1944-
245 14 $aThe Pope's battalions :$bSantamaria, Catholicism, and the Labor split /$cRoss Fitzgerald ; with the assistance of Adam Carr and William J. Dealy.
260 $aSt. Lucia, Qld. :$bUniversity of Queensland Press ;$aPortland, Or. :$bDistributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services,$c2003.
300 $ax, 342 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aCatholics, communists and capitalists, 1915-36 -- The Church, the Movement and the Labor Party, 1936-45 -- Towards the Labor split, 1945-54 -- Splitting the Labor Party, 1954-55 -- The NCC and the DLP, 1955-63 -- Holding the line against the left, 1963-74 -- The view from the outer, 1974-83 -- The righteous and the rational, 1983-98 -- Friends in high places, 1991-98.
520 1 $a"The Pope's Battalions considers Santamaria's role and influence from the late 1930s - when he was a young Catholic Actionist in Melbourne - to his death in 1998. This prominent Cold War warrior founded the secretive National Civic Council and was the brains behind the Democratic Labor Party. His militant political Catholicism was central to the traumatic mid-1950s split in the ALP which kept the party out of office federally until the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSantamaria, B. A.$q(Bartholomew Augustine),$d1915-1998.
610 20 $aAustralian Labor Party$xHistory.
610 20 $aDemocratic Labor Party (Australia)$xHistory.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$xCatholic Church$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$zAustralia$xHistory.
650 0 $aCatholic Action$zAustralia$xHistory.
651 0 $aVictoria$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aAustralia$xPolitics and government$y1945-
700 1 $aCarr, Adam$q(Adam James)
700 1 $aDealy, William J.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2004380399-d.html