Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from
Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles
over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around
his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of
Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party in 1942. His move to
academic life in what he insisted on calling the German Democratic
Republic made him a dissident against anthropological orthodoxies
in the Soviet Bloc as he had been in Australia. Those final three
decades also see his informing on his children to his Stasi
handlers. Out of relentless research, Peter Monteath and Valerie
Munt present an engrossing portrait of the short twentieth century
from Rose's birth during the Great War to his death in Berlin
shortly after the Wall comes down. The result is unputdownable for
its sweep of events while causing us to reflect on how someone can
be heroic and horrendous, appalling and admirable.
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