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

La Trobe University has established a unique reputation in Australia for the grace of its writers and for its contribution to public debate. This book collects reflections, evocations, commentary, criticism and humour by leading writers with a connection to La Trobe. They include Inga Clendinnen, Robert Manne, Peter Beilharz, Judith Brett, Dennis Altman, John Hirst, Marilyn Lake, Stefano di Pieri, John Carroll and many more. Carefully sequenced and highly readable, these essays throw reflected light on the past and future, on the locality and the wider world. They will stimulate, delight and surprise.

This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation to the present - day, and tell a story of national self - discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's paradise', and the historian who explained why. The two reporters who realised the true significance of Gallipoli and conveyed it to the nation. Russel Ward on the Australian Legend, Robin Boyd on the Australian Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, W.E.H. Stanner on the Great Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country. Real Matildas, Cultural Cringers, Future Eaters and Forgotten People - and much more. Memorably written and cohesive, this is the essential sourcebook of the words that made Australia. Includes essays by Miles Franklin, Albert Metin, Ellis Ashmead - Bartlett, Keith Murdoch, Maybanke Anderson, D.H. Lawrence, W.K. Hancock, P.R. Stephensen, Vance Palmer, Robert Menzies, A.A. Phillips, Manning Clark, Russel Ward, Barry Humphries, Robin Boyd, Donald Horne, W.E.H. Stanner, Humphrey McQueen, Hugh Stretton, Anne Summers, Miriam Dixson, Bernard Smith, Paul Kelly, Geoffrey Blainey, Tim Flannery, David Malouf, Inga Clendinnen, Noel Pearson, Judith Brett and Ghassan Hage.

"The Metamorphosis to Freedom" describes the importance and privilege of being free, in the hope that some day freedom will be a right for every human being. It is a testimonial to freedom, written and illustrated by a man who was a Jew during Fascism, a bourgeois under Communism, a rebel defeated in the Hungarian revolution, a refugee among the free, a have-nothing amid plenty.

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This latest volume is the best-of series of 16 all-original new writings in science fiction. Contents: Find the Lady, story by Nicholas Fisk A Solfy Drink, a Saffel Fragrance, story by Dorothy Gilbert A Scarab in the City of Time, story by Marta Randall Theodora & Theodora, story by Robert Thurston A Day in the South Quad, story by Felix C. Gotschalk Rogue Tomato, story by Michael Bishop The Mothers' March on Ecstasy, story by George Alec Effinger The Local Allosaurus, poem by Steven Utley Achievements, story by David Wise The Dybbuk Dolls, novelette by Jack Dann The Mirror at Sunset, story by Gil Lamont Report to Headquarters, story by Barry N. Malzberg Museum Piece, story by Drew Mendelson White Creatures, story by Gregory Benford The Contributors to Plenum Four, story by Michael Bishop Sail the Tide of Mourning, story by Richard A. Lupoff

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The stories here, all of them written between March of 1972 and November of 1973, mark a critical turning point in my career. Those who know the three earlier volumes have traced my evolution from a capable journeyman, very young and as much concerned with paying the rent as he was to advancing the state of the art, into a serious, dedicated craftsman now seeking to leave his mark on science fiction in some significant way. Throughout the decade of the 1960s I had attempted to grow and evolve within the field of writing I loved--building on the best that went before me, the work of Theodore Sturgeon and James Blish and Cyril Kornbluth and Jack Vance and Philip K. Dick and half a dozen others whose great stories had been beacons beckoning me onward--and then, as I reached my own maturity, now trying to bring science fiction along with me into a new realm of development, hauling it along even farther out of its pulp-magazine origins toward what I regarded as a more resonant and evocative kind of visionary storytelling. --Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction

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