Wild Men Of Sydney
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the raucous, mud-soaked colony of nineteenth-century Sydney, a cast of extraordinary rogues, radicals, and rabble-rousers shaped the destiny of a fledgling nation. Cyril Pearl's Wild Men of Sydney chronicles the lives and controversies of the colourful newspaper proprietors and political agitators who dominated Sydney's public life in the 1800s, chief among them John Norton, the scandalous and larger-than-life publisher of Truth, whose unapologetic sensationalism and savage political warfare made him one of the most feared and despised men in colonial Australia. Pearl writes with wit, precision, and barely concealed delight at the sheer audacity of his subjects, painting a vivid portrait of a society teetering between frontier roughness and civic ambition. The narrative illuminates the powerful role of the press as both a weapon and a mirror in early Australian democracy, unmasking the greed, corruption, and personal vendettas that drove public discourse. Pearl's scholarship is grounded in meticulous research, yet his prose crackles with the energy of the era it portrays — leaving the reader to wonder whether Sydney's wild men were the architects or the destroyers of the nation they so loudly claimed to champion.
Author: Cyril Pearl
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, W. H. Allen
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the raucous, mud-soaked colony of nineteenth-century Sydney, a cast of extraordinary rogues, radicals, and rabble-rousers shaped the destiny of a fledgling nation. Cyril Pearl's Wild Men of Sydney chronicles the lives and controversies of the colourful newspaper proprietors and political agitators who dominated Sydney's public life in the 1800s, chief among them John Norton, the scandalous and larger-than-life publisher of Truth, whose unapologetic sensationalism and savage political warfare made him one of the most feared and despised men in colonial Australia. Pearl writes with wit, precision, and barely concealed delight at the sheer audacity of his subjects, painting a vivid portrait of a society teetering between frontier roughness and civic ambition. The narrative illuminates the powerful role of the press as both a weapon and a mirror in early Australian democracy, unmasking the greed, corruption, and personal vendettas that drove public discourse. Pearl's scholarship is grounded in meticulous research, yet his prose crackles with the energy of the era it portrays — leaving the reader to wonder whether Sydney's wild men were the architects or the destroyers of the nation they so loudly claimed to champion.