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MANNING CLARK
SIR: I note that Peter Ryan (May 2001) continues to pursue his campaign against Manning Clark, a posthumous campaign of the kind that Hal Colebatch deplores elsewhere in the May issue of Quadrant.
I note also that he castigates Michael Kirby's Manning Clark Lecture for inaccuracy in the same column that he mis-spells my name.
He suggests in the column that Don Watson and myself, whom he describes as two of Clark's warmest and worst-mannered defenders, have dodged and fudged the question of whether Clark was a good historian.
This surprises me. When Peter Ryan launched his attack on Manning Clark back in September 1993, I ...