ABOUT THIS SERIES

 

…. But, after that, I realised that I really knew very little about these

parents of mine.  They had been born about the start of the Twentieth

Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980.  For their last 50 years, I was

old enough to speak with a bit of sense.   I could have talked to them

a lot about their lives.  But I did not. I know almost nothing about them

really.  Their courtship?   Working in the pits?  The Lock-out in the

Depression?  Losing their second child?  Being dusted as a miner? 

The shootings at Rothbury?  My uncles killed in the War?  There were

hundreds, thousands of questions that I would now like to ask them.

But, alas, I can’t.  It’s too late.

 

Thus, prompted by my guilt, I resolved to write these books.  They

describe happenings that affected people, real people.  In 1946, there

is a  little on international affairs, but a lot on the Billy Graham

Crusade.  There’s nothing on Arbitration Courts,  but plenty on the

terrors of the Kingsgrove Slasher. The whole series is, to coin a

modern phrase, designed to push the reader’s buttons, to make you

remember and wonder at things forgotten.  The books might just let

nostalgia see the light of day, so that oldies and youngies will

talk about the past and re-discover a heritage otherwise forgotten.

Hopefully, they will spark discussions between generations, and

foster the asking and the answering of questions that should not

remain unanswered.

 

ABOUT "BORN IN 1959?  WHAT ELSE HAPPENED?" 

 

This book is part of a series that covers the Baby Boom years from

1946 to 1965.  It tells about the large number of newsworthy events

that happened in those years.

 

To get the material for the books, the writer, Ron Williams, worked

his way through newspapers, magazines, books, and other sources

day by day until he came up with most of the major events and

ideas, and trivia, of those years.  He presents them in a thoroughly

readable book, with a mixture of humour and gravitas.

 

This book is pitched at all the “oldies” who turn 50 this year.  That

means they were born in 1959.  People find that, as they each their

middle years, they become more reflective on their lives, and they

place more value on their partners, and families, and friends.  And

about this time, nostalgia edges into their lives, and they start to

look back at their teens, and dwell on their early years and

childhood, and inevitably, their parents. But when they get back to

1959, when it all began for them, they can’t remember a thing.

 

 MOST PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR YEAR OF BIRTH.

 

This 160-page book aims to fix that a little.  It is printed on quality

paper with a celloglazed buff cover, and Perfect Bound

for durability.

 

Ideal gift for 50^th birthdays.  Nostalgics love it, read it,  pass it on.  

                      

                       It is an appropriate gift for a 50^th

 

BOOM BOOKS  SOLD 1,000 COPIES OF THESE BOOKS THIS YEAR

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:                                       BOOKS NOW READY

 

Ron Williams is a retired teacher,                            1946         1959

mathematician, computer-man,                               1947

political scientist, farmer and writer.                       1948

He has a B.A. from Sydney, and a                           1949

Masters in Social Work and a PhD                           1950

in Political Science from Hawaii.                             1951

 

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