John Wren - A Life Reconsidered.

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Melbourne: Scribe Publications (2004). 8vo. Orig. boards. (ix 468pp.). With 16 pages of b/w illustrations. Light toning to page edges. Fine condition. NOTE: The revisionist biography of Australian entrepreneur and patron of Collingwood's football politics and gambling John Wren who was made infamous by Frank Hardy's influential novel "Power Without Glory ' reexamines the historical evidence that wrongly vilified John Wren and made him the scapegoat for Australia's culture wars.