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Article: Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory.(Review)
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- April 1, 2001
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Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory, by Pauline Armstrong; Melbourne University Press, 2000, $43.95.
TO A CHILD of the late sixties like myself, Power without Glory reads mainly as a period potboiler operating at a fairly low heat. It has the reputation of a novel of interest to political and social historians rather than readers for pleasure. Why did it cause such a fuss back in 19507 How did it manage to achieve the rare distinction of remaining in print for half a century?
Literary controversies usually prove more interesting than the texts that occasion them. The works of Ern Malley, Helen Demidenko and Bob Ellis, for instance, tend to ...