J.V. Barry: A life
UNSW Press, $49.95 hb, 322 pp
Biography
Only an oppositionist
by Tony Blackshield •
‘I am really only an oppositionist, distrustful of power wherever I see it,’ wrote Jack Barry (1903–69) in 1951; and perhaps his oppositional instincts held him back from the heights of power to which he sometimes aspired. Instead, this biography argues, his impact was that of ‘a public intellectual before the term was invented’.
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J.V. Barry: A life
by Mark Finnane
UNSW Press, $49.95 hb, 322 pp
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