History Wars: The Peter Ryan - Manning Clark Controversy

by Doug Munro

'In 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark's epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called "an overdue axe to a tall poppy", Ryan lambasted the History as "an imposition on Australian credulity" and declared its author a fraud, both as a historian and a person. This unprecedented public assault by a publisher on his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760464767
• ISBN13: 9781760464769
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"