Dimensions
152 x 222 x 32mm
James McAuley - poet, critic and founding editor of 'Quadrant' - was Australia's outstanding intellectual of the right during the cold war. This is a study of the life and political activities of a troubled individual; it is also a history of that remarkable group of powerbrokers in the forties and fifties which included Alf Conlon, John Kerr, Richard Krygier and B A Santamaria.
When it was first published, this controversial study of McAuley attracted a storm of protest. A virulent chorus of McAuley's old friends and acolytes objected to the claims that his magazine had been established by the CIA, that he had close associations with ASIO and that his apocalyptic anti-communism was driven by a sense of the Devil at work in his own personal torment. Cassandra Pybus has extended and strengthened her argument in this revised paperback edition.
