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Don Bradman challenging the myth

This book takes a very different look at Australia's most popular sporting hero, Sir Donald Bradman, and explains how his iconic status was created and sustained, and what his popularity and heroism say about the meaning of Australian nationhood. Hutchins considers the many ways in which Bradman has been represented - as a symbol of Australian masculinity, as the quintessential Australian boy from the bush, as the 'battler', and as the hero at a distance from the political.

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