Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory

Story of the production of Frank Hardy's 'Power Without Glory', the 1950 novel that sparked a criminal libel case and a literary controversy. Argues that Hardy was commissioned to write the semi-fictional story as part of a deliberate Communist Party strategy to discredit power-broker John Wren and, through him, damage the Catholic Church's anti-Communist activities in the Labor Party and the Victorian industrial unions. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Author has a PhD from the University of Melbourne.Armstrong, Pauline is the author of 'Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory' with ISBN 9780522848885 and ISBN 0522848885.