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BOOK REVIEW

Patrick Morgan (ed.), B.A. Santamaria: Running the Show: Selected Documents: 1939–1996, Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 2008. pp. xvi + 503. $59.95 cloth.
Patrick Morgan has brought together a valuable collection of documents written by B A Santamaria concerning his anti-communist 'Movement'. Most of these documents have not been published before, and augment Morgan's 2007 collection in B.A. Santamaria: Your Most Obedient Servant: Selected Letters: 1938–1996.	1
Given the astonishing size of the collection held in the State Archives of Victoria, amounting to 630 boxes, it has been an enormous undertaking for Morgan to assess this vast holding. Yet it is also difficult to know what key documents might have been lost over time, are missing from the Archives, or are not yet available.	2
The chapters are divided by topic or chronology. The brief introduction and the outline of Santamaria's career give a neat context for the collection, and Morgan's commentary at the end offers his assessment. Each chapter begins with an outline of Santamaria's involvement in the particular topic, and a selection of relevant documents follows. The chapters are divided as follows: 'Fragments of Autobiography'; 'Catholic Action, 1938–1954'; 'The National Catholic Rural Movement, 1940–1983'; 'The Land Settlement Scheme, 1951–1954'; 'The Informal Movement, 1941–1945'; 'The Movement, 1945–1952'; 'Pre-Split Tensions, 1953–1954'; 'The Split, 1954–1955'; 'Post-Split Turmoil, 1956–1957'; 'The National Civic Council, 1958–1968'; 'The National Civic Council, 1969–78'; 'The Internal NCC Split, 1978–1982'; and 'The National Civic Council, 1983–1996'.	3
Morgan's final commentary (pp. 426–44) is followed by a list of organisations associated with the Movement, and a description of personalities and locations. A long 1959 talk by Norm Lauritz appears in full (pp. 456–82). Morgan outlines the contents of Santamaria papers held in the Archives, and lists the documents he has selected, adding a bibliography and a comprehensive index.	. . .

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