Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
When the gifted but erratic newspaper publisher and politician John Norton died in 1916, the Sydney Bulletin believed that nobody could ever write his life’s story. However, this impartial biography of a passionate man and his works manages to separate fact from the fantasies which Norton enjoyed weaving around his origins, motives and activities.
The result is a succinct, compelling story of an extraordinary character who used radical journalism and politics to achieve personal goals, doing much good and some harm along the way.
A ‘Norton Anthology’ gives entertaining examples of the type of journalism which made Norton idolized by large sections of the working class but hated and feared by most conventional people. This is not the whole voice of radicalism in Australia’s early years. But it is an important, neglected and greatly misunderstood part of our history.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – plastic wrapped, some yellowing and spotting to pages.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Year: 1981
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 178pp
ISBN: 0522842151
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