{"product_id":"9781925095111","title":"Mannix","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDaniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAward-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected discoveries in Irish and Australian archives which overturn some widely held views. She also draws on her own memories of meeting and interviewing Mannix to get to the essence of this man of contradictions, controversies and mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMannix\u003c\/i\u003e is not only an astonishing new look at a remarkable life, but a fascinating depiction of Melbourne in the first half last century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Niall\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Australia’s  foremost biographers. She is the author of five award-winning  biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. In  2016 she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the  National Biography Award for \u003ci\u003eMannix\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Brenda has degrees from the University  of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University.  In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to  Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic’.  She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian  Book Review.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘For readers interested in the political and cultural life of Australia during the first half of the 20th century, Niall’s highly readable biography will reward handsomely.’ \u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘With characteristic insight, sensitivity, and tact, Niall confirms that Daniel Mannix is a major, if elusive, figure in the modern history of Australia, Ireland, and the Catholic Church…a balanced and convincing account of Mannix’s life and times.’ \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Brenda Niall’s central challenge was to uncover the personal face of Mannix from his public speeches…She does this modestly and penetratingly.’ \u003ci\u003eCatholic News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This is the best life of Mannix we have…Writing from inside the Melbourne Catholic experience, Brenda Niall shows how people’s affection for Mannix muted their criticisms of him—even if they knew better.’ \u003ci\u003eGlobal Pulse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I should say that I expected to take my time over this biography, as I usually do, reading a chapter every other day. But not so, I could not put it down.’ \u003ci\u003eANZ LitLovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘For my money, Brenda Niall’s \u003ci\u003eMannix\u003c\/i\u003e is the most wise, shrewd and elegant biography yet produced of this complex and beguiling man. Niall’s irresistible prose strengthens the candour of this fine book.’ \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Calmly magisterial…Niall gives a sense of Mannix’s greatness and of why we can still be awed by him.’ \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An extraordinary man and an extraordinary book.’ \u003ci\u003eWeekly Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Among living Australian biographers, only Philip Ayres matches Brenda Niall for painstaking research serving narratives at once spirited and judicious.’ \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘This book is the work of a master of the art of biography…Gripping.’ \u003ci\u003eIrish Echo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A fond and fluent life of Mannix that captures the crispness and the passion, the humour and the enigma of the man who meddled with politics like a master magician.’ \u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘[Niall] has written a generous and penetrating biography.’ \u003ci\u003eMadonna Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137515176176,"sku":"9781925095111","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925095111_p0.jpg?v=1763633203","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925095111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}