The Hard Way

Australia: Rigby, 1976. library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1976. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Mild age-toning to dustjacket. 255 pages.. The story of how 'Power Without Glory' was written ...and almost repressed. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. .… Read more about this item

Adelaide, Rigby reprint - hard cover in dust jacket 'The Hard Way' is Frank Hardy's dramatic story of the writing and publishing of 'Power Without Glory', his arrest, trial for criminal libel and subsequent acquittal. 'The Hard Way' paints a vivid picture of Australia in the late forties and early fifties, gripped by the hysteria of McCarthyism. The… Read more about this item

Rigby, Adelaide 1976 (first published 1961). 22.0 x 14.0cms, 256pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper (unread?) Hardy tells the story of writing & publishing "Power Without Glory', his ficitionalised account of John Wren's political career as well as his arrest, lrial and acquittal during the McCarthy era (late 1940s-early '50s).