Ryan Cropp’s biography suggests Australia won’t see a public intellectual like Donald Horne again.
This is an impressive biography, impeccably researched and beautifully crafted. In its scope, detail, and fluency, it is comparable to the best biographies of George Orwell. The comparison is apt: numerous reviewers likened Horne’s to the plain-speaking prose of Orwell, and the publisher’s blurb claims this biography positions Horne as an “antipodean Orwell”., denied agency to Orwell’s first wife. Thankfully, Ryan Cropp does not similarly airbrush the women from Donald Horne’s crowded life.
His judgment was confirmed when the irony of the book’s title was missed, taken at face value, and used to self-congratulate, reinforcing the same cushioned complacency the book had sought to challenge. But longer term,helped provide a framework for political change and a sharper sense of an Australian identity.
He went from reporting to an ASIO contact in the 1950s to ASIO reporting on him in the 1970s. He was devastated by John Kerr’s 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam, whom he regarded as a political visionary, a man “born to be a king” .His outrage fundamentally transformed his political outlook and his public role. He spoke at innumerable meetings and wrote countless columns and essays supporting many causes, while continuing to interrogate the myths and values of Australia itself.
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