Original sentence: A more balanced recent account is Chris McConville's article in Labour History, "John Wren: Machine Boss" (1981).After Wren's death in 1953 (at the 1953 AFL grand final from a heart attack) his widow sued Hardy for criminal libel, but Hardy was acquitted.Hugh Buggy's The Real John Wren (1977) was also very favourable.John Wren (3 April 1871 - September 1953), Australian businessman, has become a legendary figure thanks mainly to a fictionalised account of his life in Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory, which was also made into a television series.This made him a supporter of the powerful Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, who became a close friend.Under Mannix's influence Wren was fiercely anti-Communist, and after the war he used his wealth to support politicians who opposed Communism and defended Catholic interests, but he also expected them to protect his business interests, both legal and illegal
Edited sentence: A more balanced recent account is Chris McConville's article in Labour History, John Wren: Machine Boss (1981).After Wren's death in 1953 (at the 1953 Australian Football League grand final from a heart attack at age 82) his widow sued Hardy for criminal libel, but Hardy was acquitted.Hugh Buggy's The Real John Wren (1977) was also very favorable.John Wren (April 3 1871 - September 1953), Australian businessman, has become a legendary figure thanks mainly to a fictionalised account of his life in Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory, which was also made into a television series.This made him a supporter of the powerful Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, a native of County Cork, Ireland, who was also virulently anti-British, and thus who became a close friend.Under Mannix's influence, Wren was fiercely anti-Communist, and after the war he used his wealth to support politicians who opposed Communism and defended Catholic interests, but he also expected them to protect his business interests, both legal and illegal