A Short History of Manning Clark

A decade after his passing, Charles Manning Hope Clark continues to disturb his fellow Australians. Clark was followed by controversy for much of his life. As a young schoolmaster in England he was denounced as an Antichrist and suspected of Nazi sympathies. On returning to Australia, during the Cold War he was vilified as a communist. As he succeeded- as a teacher, writer and public speaker- and Australians who otherwise might have had little interest in their country's past responded with enthusiasm, he provoked scorn and rage.