Mannix

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 439 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbournes Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected discoveries in Irish and Australian archives which overturn some widely held views. She also draws on her own memories of meeting and interviewing Mannix to get to the essence of this man of contradictions, controversies and mystery. Mannix is not only an astonishing new look at a remarkable life, but a fascinating depiction of Melbourne in the first half last century. Brenda Niall is one of Australias foremost biographers. She is the author of four award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. Brenda has degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Yale University and the Australian National University. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic. She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review.

ISBN: 9781922182111