Abstract:
It is not often academic historians capture the front page of the daily press. Many industries equally stricken in the Australian recession might be glad of the generic publicity. Firstly, in the pages of the conservative literary-intellectual journal Quadrant comes an article by the conservative literary-intellectual Peter Ryan dissenting from the praise heaped upon the late Professor Charles Manning Clark, and his A History of Australia. Sounds logical enough in the context. What is more Australian than taking some distinguished figure and pulling them a few floors down the multi-storey of reputation, using a few less savoury personal details to roll the story along?
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