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'Not only a fascinating study of one of the most significant political struggles in our history, but also a window onto the times between the 1940s and 1990s.' PICK OF THE WEEK --Steven Carroll The Saturday Age 'Fascinating ... an intriguing complement, and counterpoint, to the most important works published about Santamaria's role in Australian political history ... Aarons's book deserves to be widely read.' --Ross Fitzgerald Weekend Australian 'Communists, spies, and priests -- dramatic new stories and insights from the front line of the Cold War in Australia.' --Lindsay Tanner, author of Sideshow and Politics with Purpose 'During the Cold War two tightly organised groups of ruthless idealists -- one with their eyes on Moscow, the other with their eyes on Rome -- fought each other in greatest secrecy for control of the Australian trade union movement and, ultimately, for control of the country. This scrupulously honest and scholarly history tells the inside story of one of the most significant struggles of Australia's post-war history, on the basis of the intimate knowledge and understanding of two former political insiders on either side of the barricade who became closest friends after the dust of battle had settled.' --Robert Manne, author of The Petrov Affair 'The Show is a major addition to the growing literature on Santamaria's anti-communist organisation and the labour movement in Australia.' --Bruce Duncan, author of Crusade or Conspiracy?

'During the Cold War two tightly organised groups of ruthless idealists -- one with their eyes on Moscow, the other with their eyes on Rome -- fought each other in greatest secrecy for control of the Australian trade union movement and, ultimately, for control of the country. This scrupulously honest and scholarly history tells the inside story of one of the most significant struggles of Australia's post-war history, on the basis of the intimate knowledge and understanding of two former political insiders on either side of the barricade who became closest friends after the dust of battle had settled.' --Robert Manne, author of The Petrov Affair 'The Show is a major addition to the growing literature on Santamaria's anti-communist organisation and the labour movement in Australia.' --Bruce Duncan, author of Crusade or Conspiracy? 'Not only a fascinating study of one of the most significant political struggles in our history, but also a window onto the times between the 1940s and 1990s.' PICK OF THE WEEK --Steven Carroll The Saturday Age 'Fascinating ... an intriguing complement, and counterpoint, to the most important works published about Santamaria's role in Australian political history ... Aarons's book deserves to be widely read.' --Ross Fitzgerald Weekend Australian 'Communists, spies, and priests -- dramatic new stories and insights from the front line of the Cold War in Australia.' --Lindsay Tanner, author of Sideshow and Politics with Purpose

'Fascinating ... an intriguing complement, and counterpoint, to the most important works published about Santamaria's role in Australian political history ... Aarons's book deserves to be widely read.' --Ross Fitzgerald Weekend Australian 'Communists, spies, and priests -- dramatic new stories and insights from the front line of the Cold War in Australia.' --Lindsay Tanner, author of Sideshow and Politics with Purpose 'During the Cold War two tightly organised groups of ruthless idealists -- one with their eyes on Moscow, the other with their eyes on Rome -- fought each other in greatest secrecy for control of the Australian trade union movement and, ultimately, for control of the country. This scrupulously honest and scholarly history tells the inside story of one of the most significant struggles of Australia's post-war history, on the basis of the intimate knowledge and understanding of two former political insiders on either side of the barricade who became closest friends after the dust of battle had settled.' --Robert Manne, author of The Petrov Affair 'The Show is a major addition to the growing literature on Santamaria's anti-communist organisation and the labour movement in Australia.' --Bruce Duncan, author of Crusade or Conspiracy? 'Not only a fascinating study of one of the most significant political struggles in our history, but also a window onto the times between the 1940s and 1990s.' PICK OF THE WEEK --Steven Carroll The Saturday Age

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Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter on ABC Radio National for twenty years, and was the founding executive producer of Background Briefing. He is the author or co-author of six books, including investigations of war criminals in Australia and the Vatican's role in smuggling mass killers, and works on Israel, Western intelligence, and East Timor. His most recent book was The Family File, an account of four generations of the Aarons family who were members of the Communist Party of Australia over seven decades, based on the largest single collection of ASIO files in history. John Grenville joined the National Civic Council (NCC, also known as The Movement and The Show) in 1957, and operated as an influential but secret NCC member in the trade union movement for a decade. A committed Catholic, he was a senior official of the Victorian Trades Hall Council in the 1960s and 1970s, and federal secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union from 1973 to 1975. He resigned from the NCC and his union position in 1975 in the midst of a bitter faction fight that ultimately tore the organisation apart in the early 1980s. He continued to work for the labour movement, as a freelance industrial advocate for many small and medium-sized unions.

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