Robert Manne: A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars

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Robert Manne

A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars

Robert Manne

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La Trobe University Press
17 February 2025

Memoirs; Biography - Australian

The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual

Robert Manne is one of Australia's most profound political analysts. His memoir traces his intellectual roots, revealing how his family background and early years informed the questions he would spend his life trying to answer. It also provides a fascinating portrait of key political controversies, including intellectual combat over Pol Pot, Wilfred Burchett, Quadrant, the Stolen Generations, Manning Clark, the Howard government, the Murdoch press and much more.

During the Cold War and the culture wars, Manne clashed with some of the most influential thinkers, writers and polemicists - Noam Chomsky, Les Murray, Leonie Kramer, Tom Keneally, Isi Leibler, Helen ""Demidenko"" Darville, Peter Craven, Paddy McGuinness, Keith Windschuttle and Andrew Bolt. This memoir recounts with surprising and unknown detail what really happened and why.

Often subverting conventional notions of left and right, Manne is an original thinker who has helped shape the nation's discourse for decades. This is the inside story of a life of engagement and reflection, and a book for anyone interested in the shape and meaning of the past nearly fifty years of politics.

'Robert Manne's prose is elegant and reflective, offering the rare perspective of a man unafraid to admit and learn from his mistakes.' -Becca Whitehead, Books+Publishing

'Essential reading for anyone interested in what has happened to politics and ideas in this country since World War II' -Frank Bongiorno, Australian Book Review

By: Robert Manne
Imprint: La Trobe University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 664g
ISBN: 9781760645625
ISBN 10: 1760645621
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 17 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Manne is emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. His books include The Petrov Affair, The Culture of Forgetting, Left, Right, Left- Political Essays 1977-2005, Making Trouble and The Mind of the Islamic State. He has written three Quarterly Essays and is a regular contributor to the Monthly and the Guardian.