The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
On Julian Assange
Published on 23. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-86395-771-7 (ISBN)
Description
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one.
This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of our time.
Robert Manne's many books include Making Trouble and The Words That Made Australia (as co-editor). He is the author of three Quarterly Essays, In Denial, Sending Them Home and Bad News.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Melbourne
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
147 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86395-771-7 (9781863957717)
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Robert Manne is an emeritus professor of politics and vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne. From the late 1980s he wrote regular, often controversial, columns on current affairs for The Herald, The Age, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald, and was a frequent commentator on ABC radio and television.Between 1990 and 1997 Manne was the editor of Quadrant. Appointed as a well-known opponent of communism, he resigned over right-wing opposition to his call for uncompromising recognition of the crimes committed against the Indigenous peoplesof Australia. Since 2005 he has written widely for The Monthly and The Guardian.Manne is the author or editor of somethirty books, including The Petrov Affair, Left, Right, Left, The Mind of the Islamic State, On Borrowed Time and three Quarterly Essays.In 2005 he was voted Australia's leading public intellectual.A fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Manne was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2023.