New Zealand's Prime Ministers : from Dick Seddon to John Key / Michael Bassett
- Bib ID:
- 7377257
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bassett, Michael, 1938-, author
- Description:
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- Mangawhai, Northland, New Zealand : David Ling Publishing Limited, 2017
- ©2017
- 594 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781927305294 (paperback)
- 1927305292
- Summary:
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"Collective biographies have been written for Britain’s and Australia’s Prime Ministers, and for America’s Presidents. Until now, New Zealand has had no comparable overview. Based on extensive, careful archival research, interviews with recent Prime Ministers, many of their colleagues, and with their opponents, New Zealand’s Prime Ministers is the product of decades of appreciative and insightful observation. New Zealand’s Prime Ministers discusses the evolving environments within which all our Prime Ministers operated. It also examines their styles, thinking, successes and failures, and looks at what worked with the public and what didn’t. Besides being both biographical and analytical, the book notes the events that gradually altered political life and the conduct and performance of our politicians. The book also deals with the changing economic circumstances in the country since the beginning of the twentieth century, when the term Prime Minister was officially gazetted, and the efforts that Prime Ministers have made to tackle economic and other challenges thrust upon them."--Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- 1. Richard John Seddon
- 2. William Hall-Jones
- 3. Joseph George Ward
- 4. Thomas Noble Mackenzie
- 5. William Ferguson Massey
- 6. Francis Henry Dillon Bell
- 7. Joseph Gordon Coates
- 8. George William Forbes
- 9. Michael Joseph Savage
- 10. Peter Fraser
- 11. Sidney George Holland
- 12. Walter Nash
- 13. Keith Jacka Holyoake
- 14. John Ross Marshall
- 15. Norman Eric Kirk
- 16. Wallace (Bill) Edward Rowling
- 17. Robert David Muldoon
- 18. David Russell Lange
- 19. Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer
- 20. Michael Kenneth Moore
- 21. James Brendan Bolger
- 22. Jennifer Mary Shipley
- 23. Helen Elizabeth Clark
- 24. John Phillip Key
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-578) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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