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Coates of Kaipara by Michael Bassett
$39.95 NZD
Category: NZ Political History | Reading Level: near fine
This is the biography of New Zealand Prime Minister, Gordon Coates (1878-1943). It offers a reassessment of the achievements and failures of a political career which spanned the extremes of popular adulation and contempt.
Sir Joseph Ward - A Political Biography by Michael Bassett
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Sir Joseph Ward (1856–1930) was the leading political figure during the forty-year life of the Liberal Party in New Zealand. He was a member of Ballance's first Cabinet, twice Prime Minister (1906–12 and 1928–30), and was still a Cabinet Minister at the time of his death. This lively biography is the st ...Show more
The State in New Zealand 1840-1984 - Socialism Without Doctrines? by Michael Bassett
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History | Reading Level: very good
In this study, historian and former politician Michael Bassett, explores how and why the state became such an active and interventionist player in New Zealand life, developing, subsidizing and regulating the economy, and increasingly protecting citizens from the cradle to the grave. It looks in detail a ...Show more
Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser by Michael Bassett
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History | Reading Level: very good
Peter Fraser was New Zealand's wartime Prime Minister and a world figure of considerable stature. His political career spanned most of the first half of the twentieth century. This is the first full biography, using considerable material assembled by Michael King. First published 2001.
Working with David - Inside the Lange Cabinet by Michael Bassett
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History | Reading Level: very good
David Lange's Fourth Labour Government was a watershed in New Zealand history. Whether it was international politics (ANZUS, Mururoa tests, Oxford Union debate) or domestic economics (Roger Douglas's reforms), New Zealand was a vastly different country in 1990 than it had been when Lange won in 1984. Th ...Show more
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