Backbencher

Lecture ten was an audio lecture of Manning Clark talking at the National Folkfest in Australia. One of his favorite people to talk about was Henry Lawson, who he referred to a lot, and how he was influencial in the Australian culture. He had a way about him when he spoke that made me more interested in what he had to say in this lecture than anything he said in his book. If he had had the same energy in his book that he did during his speech, it would have made the book so much easier to read what he was talking about. I enjoyed that he included women more in his speech as a lot of people have said. But to be completely honest I think it is because women in society today have more of a voice now then back in the day. It was nice to hear some different songs during Clark's lecture, because they really broke up the parts of his lecture that were kind of boring. The songs gave me a sense of what their culture is like and what kind of music they see as popular.
Even though we got to see a different side of Clark through his speech it still got to be long winded in some parts. It was nice not hearing Clark's extreme bias and a lecture full of politics and religion. He definitely redeemed himself after having to read his book. My questions would have to be why didn't he write the book the way he lectured? Was it because it was the history of Australia and he had to be more serious?