C. Hartley Grattan

Clinton Hartley Grattan (October 19, 1902 – June 25, 1980) was an American journalist, historian, critic and commentator, who was considered one of the leading American authorities on 20th-century Australian history and international relations.

Quotes

• [C]ulturally there is a vast amount of hard work to be done before the average Australian has ordinary tolerance and understanding of American life and thought.
  • "An Australian–American Axis?", in Harper's Magazine, vol. 180 (May 1940), p. 569

• The Australian–American policy must be flung into the ring where the Continental Americans and the Imperial Americans do battle.
  • "An Australian–American Axis?", in Harper's Magazine, vol. 180 (May 1940), p. 569

Quotes about Grattan

• Australia to the world lay hid in night:
  God said, "Let Grattan be!" and all was light.
  • G. V. Portus, review of Introducing Australia (1942); cp. Pope's epitaph for Newton. Quoted in Laurie Hergenhan, No Casual Traveller (1995), Ch. 10, p. 200

• In that time he has done as much as, and probably more than any other person, to explain Australia to his fellow countrymen. In addition he has played an important part in explaining Australia to itself.
  • Robin Gollan, citation for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws conferred on Grattan by the Australian National University, Canberra (1977). Quoted in Laurie Hergenhan, No Casual Traveller (1995), Epilogue, p. 250

• He loved talking: he loved to be a Dr Johnson in the New World.
  • Manning Clark, "The New World's Dr Johnson", The Age (20 September 1980), p. 27

External links

• J. J. Healy, "C. Hartley Grattan: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center" (Grattan Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin)