Frank Hardy And The Making Of Power Without Glory
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Behind one of Australia's most explosive and controversial novels lies a story just as gripping as the fiction itself. Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory chronicles the extraordinary journey of working-class communist Frank Hardy, who risked everything — his freedom, his family, and his reputation — to write and self-publish his landmark 1950 novel, a thinly veiled exposé of Melbourne's corrupt political and social elite that led to his criminal prosecution for alleged libel. Pauline Armstrong's meticulously researched account draws on archival sources, interviews, and previously unpublished material to reconstruct not only the creative and political battles behind Hardy's masterwork, but also the wider cultural landscape of mid-twentieth-century Australia — a world of class warfare, censorship, and ideological passion. Armstrong writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a storyteller, illuminating how a single act of literary defiance helped shape the Australian social conscience. For anyone who has ever wondered how a book can change a nation, this is an essential and revelatory read.
Author: Pauline Armstrong
Format: Hardback
Published: 2000, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Behind one of Australia's most explosive and controversial novels lies a story just as gripping as the fiction itself. Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory chronicles the extraordinary journey of working-class communist Frank Hardy, who risked everything — his freedom, his family, and his reputation — to write and self-publish his landmark 1950 novel, a thinly veiled exposé of Melbourne's corrupt political and social elite that led to his criminal prosecution for alleged libel. Pauline Armstrong's meticulously researched account draws on archival sources, interviews, and previously unpublished material to reconstruct not only the creative and political battles behind Hardy's masterwork, but also the wider cultural landscape of mid-twentieth-century Australia — a world of class warfare, censorship, and ideological passion. Armstrong writes with the precision of a historian and the narrative drive of a storyteller, illuminating how a single act of literary defiance helped shape the Australian social conscience. For anyone who has ever wondered how a book can change a nation, this is an essential and revelatory read.