Description
Entrepreneur, aviator, publisher, publicist, propagandist, playwright, songwriter, motorist, land developer, dreamer: for five brief years it seemed like there was nothing Clement John DeGaris couldn't do. He'd inveigle your life savings out of you with a promise of doubling them in a year and then, when he lost them, he'd promise to reimburse you and you'd lend him some more to make it easier. He was dashing, patriotic, handsome, fearless and funny: men and women alike adored him. He'd put a second storey on Mildura, he said, with his marketing skills and tenacious work in the fruit, irrigation and land
industries; he was going to build a new home afresh at Kendenup, Western Australia. Along the way, he wrote and sold books and plays, songs, suburbs and a host of other equally remarkable schemes. There seemed to be little that C. J. DeGaris couldn't achieve: he was a new kind of Australian man, modern, quick-witted, unflappable.
Author: David Nichols
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 378
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9781760801656
ISBN10: 1760801658
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Australia & New Zealand | General
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