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Antipodean apparatchik, Barry Gustafson

Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser Michael Bassett and Michael King Penguin Books, $49.95, ISBN 0140297936 The late Professor John Roberts once told me a story about his father “Big Jim” Roberts, nicknamed “the uncrowned King of

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An (extra)ordinary bloke, Margaret Clark

His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon Barry Gustafson Auckland University Press, $59.95, ISBN 1 86940 236 7   Sir Robert Muldoon was the dominant figure in the political life of a generation of New Zealanders. He was Minister of

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