Doug Morrissey Doug Morrissey i(10258841 works by)
Gender: Male
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Australian author.

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y separately published work icon Ned Kelly : A Lawless Life Bacchus Marsh : Connor Court Publishing , 2015 10258874 2015 single work biography

'The books on Kelly multiply without adding to our understanding. Instead the mythologising becomes more intense and uncritical. Doug Morrissey has something new to say on Kelly and his world. Ned Kelly was very ready with excuses and justifications for his actions. His admiring biographers endorse them. In this book Doug subjects them to close scrutiny. They all fall over and a different Ned emerges – a man who had embraced a lawless life. Doug Morrissey is an expert on life in Kelly country. His previous writings have annoyed the admirers of Australia’s most famous bushranger. This book will cause heated debate. It includes a criticism of the best known Kelly books and a line by line annotation of the errors and misrepresentations in Ned’s own Jerilderie Letter.'

Source: From the introduction.

2016 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards The Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
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