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.