Clark, Manning.

Speaking Out of Turn. Lectures and Speeches 1940-1991. Foreword by Stuart Macintyre. Note on the text by Dymphna and Sebastian Clark.

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1997. 21.6cm x 13.8cm. xviii, 263 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stamp from Glenstal Abbey Library on rear endpaper.

Includes for Example: What of Germany? 1940/ Robert Gordon Menzies/ The Beginning of an Australian Intelligentsia/ The Case for Labor 1974/ The Aftermath of the Dismissal 1976/ The ‘Cleansing Fire’ Speech 1978/ The Threat to the Environment 1989/ The Noonkanbah Speech 1989/ A Comment on the Australia Day/ First Anniversary, Tiananmen Square Massacre 1990/ The Teaching of History: Tutorials 1948 and 1967/ ‘A History of Australia’, Volume 1, and Its Critics 1963/ The Writing of History 1967/ A Talk to Graduate Students/ Writing History in Australia/ A Farewell Talk to My Students/ Myths of the Kingdom of Nothingness/ On being a Historian/ Launching Volume 6 of ‘A History of Australia’/ Launching ‘La Storia dell’Australia’, 1990/ Fyodor Dostoevsky 1961/ Karl Marx/ Henry Handel Richardson/ Henry Lawson/ What Newman Means to Me/ Brian Fitzpatrick/ Patrick Shaw/ David Campbell/ Noel Counihan/ Herbert Burton/ Margaret Masterman/ Stephen Murray-Smith/ Joyce Goodes/ Kathleen Fitzpatrick/ Axel Lodewycks/ Barry Humphries etc.

Clark’s seer-like presence is still palpable, and his words still give us pause. For example, his rebuke of ‘the colossal effrontery to attempt to apply the principles and methods of the bookkeeper to the subject of human happines’ resounds just as surely today as when it was first spoken. This is Manning’s book. Before his death in 1991, he assembled these forty speeches and lectures for publication, grouping them as History, Politics, Literature, Friends. Newcomers curious as to why his work ans person have sparked such furious debate will find clues here, in the conjunction of his passionate public voice with his persistent personal vulnerability and self-doubt. Older readers who themselves heard Manning speak from the lectern, the pulpit or the soapbox will instantly recognise his unmistakeable voice and language.

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522847706
• Inventory Number: 50354AB

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