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Not Dark Yet: A Personal History by David Walker

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April 2011, no. 330

Not Dark Yet: A Personal History by David Walker

Giramondo, $32.95 pb, 336 pp

Not Dark Yet: A Personal History by David Walker

by
April 2011, no. 330

It is perhaps not surprising that historians, as they edge towards retirement, should consider the possibility of reviewing their own life history. So, for example, among the generation of postwar historians, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Bernard Smith added powerful stories to our stock of Australian childhoods, while W.K. Hancock and Manning Clark, managing two volumes apiece, focused more on the life trajectory and career path. Now, at a time when there appears to be a growing appetite for biography and memoir, one senses that another generation of historians might be sizing up the options.

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