Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991
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'Manning Clark is Australia's most influential historian, and his work continues to set agendas and generate debate long after his death. This selection of his letters offers an unparalleled view of the complex intellectual and emotional life of this controversial figure.

'From his time as a young man at Oxford in the late 1930s, to his final days half a century later, he maintained a lively and erudite correspondence with family and with a wide range of public figures and other people. With an immediacy not visible in Clark's published work, his letters reveal his life-long struggle to tell the story of his country. They also embody his hopes for Australia and the dismay he felt about many trends he saw emerging in the closing decades of the twentieth century.

'The letters track a progression from academic to public sage, as well as the influence of his personal life upon his work. Correspondence from his travels to the Soviet Union, the USA and other countries reflect a biting insight as well as attitudes that might surprise the many who have accused him of left-wing bias.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Launched at Manning Clark House, Canberra, ACT, 1 August 2008 by Bill Gammage.
  • Dedication: For Michael Jones and in memory of Manning and Dymphna

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2008 .
      Extent: 552p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes Index (p.547-552); Select bibliography (p.515-516); Notes (p. 480-514) and list of archival sources (p.522-545).
      ISBN: 9781741754469

Works about this Work

Untitled Shauna Hicks , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Archives and Manuscripts , May vol. 39 no. 1 2011; (p. 249-252)

— Review of Manning Clark : A Life Brian Matthews , 2008 single work biography ; Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Untitled D K Fieldhouse , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 4 no. 1 2010;

— Review of Manning Clark : A Life Brian Matthews , 2008 single work biography ; Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Book Notes Christina Twomey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , September vol. 40 no. 3 2009; (p. 394)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Editing Manning Clark's Letters Roslyn Russell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: ACTWrite , May vol. 15 no. 4 2009; (p. 4-5)
Roslyn Russell outlines her aims and methodology in preparing for publication a volume of Manning Clark's letters.
Affectionate Intensity Lyndall Ryan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 194 2009; (p. 84-86)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Letters from the Heart Mark McKenna , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 August 2008; (p. 4-5)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Pleading Heart Brian Matthews , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , August vol. 3 no. 7 2008; (p. 8-9)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
A Tragic Grandeur Richard Thwaites , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 August 2008; (p. 15)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Being Manning John Thompson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 7-8)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Affectionate Intensity Lyndall Ryan , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 194 2009; (p. 84-86)

— Review of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 Manning Clark , 2008 selected work correspondence
Finding Manning Clark in the Letters Roslyn Russell , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , October vol. 18 no. 1 2007; (p. 15-18)
Man of the House Now on the Page Lyn Mills , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 August 2008; (p. 7)
A brief report on the Canberra launch by Professor Bill Gammage of Ever, Manning: Selected Correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991 at Manning Clark House, Forrest, August 2008.
Editing Manning Clark's Letters Roslyn Russell , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: ACTWrite , May vol. 15 no. 4 2009; (p. 4-5)
Roslyn Russell outlines her aims and methodology in preparing for publication a volume of Manning Clark's letters.
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