Author: Debelle, Penelope.
Title: Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnstone Qc.
Description: Adelaide, Kent Town Wakefield Press, 2011. 1st ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, top of spine slightly bumped, black & white photos. 212 pp. This book is an account of Elliott Johnston, the Adelaide lawyer. It is also an account of a student radical, who even then, would put his belief in freedom of thought and speech above his personal interests. A communist warrior whose ideas and principles were not well understood even by his comrades. The backdrop of to all of this is a fascinating picture of Adelaide life and society, particularly student life in the late 1930s. ISBN: 9781862549562

Keywords: australian biography, australian government, law, lawyers, political activists, communists, australian history, 1930s, communication, free speech, south australia 9781862549562


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