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The man on the horse.(Frances De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend)(Book review)
Frances De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend, by Andrew Moore; Federation Press, 2005, $39.95.
THE WORD FASCIST is still freely tossed around, with varying degrees of jest and hyperbole. No doubt many Quadrant readers and writers have been on either end of the barb. The title of this book--but not the text--is yet another example of the somewhat, well, broad use of the word.
The book seems to be saying that Francis Edward De Groot, Australia's "man on horseback" was hardly a fascist at all. It searches industriously for fancy ideology but finds little. Mostly it finds yet another rather ordinary man of modest build and looks, flung by fate into ...
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