Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory by Pauline Armstrong

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to top foredge. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

This is the story of the production of Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory, the 1950 novel that sparked a criminal libel case and a literary controversy.

Armstrong argues that Hardy was commissioned to write the semi-fictional story as part of a deliberate Communist Party strategy to discredit power-broker John Wren and, through him, damage the Catholic Church's anti-Communist activities in the Labor Party and the Victorian industrial unions. (publisher blurb)

Includes notes, bibliography and index.