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No Hamlet, Barry Gustafson

Posted on September 1, 2005 by NZ Books

My Life David Lange Viking, $49.95, ISBN 067004556X David Lange was no Will Shakespeare, and his memoir My Life is no Hamlet, Othello or Macbeth. Lange’s prose is distinguished by clever one-liners, not lengthy, self-revealing soliloquies. My Life does, however,…

Tagged with: Barry Gustafson, David Lange, Issue 71, Spring 2005, Viking
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review

(Not?) fading, Colin James

Posted on March 1, 1995 by NZ Books

Cuttings David Lange, Jonathan Hudson and Associates, no price given Ex-Prime Ministers can be a nuisance. Edward Heath pricked at Margaret Thatcher who demeaned John Major. Sir Keith Holyoake connived at the supplanting of his successor by Sir Robert Muldoon…

Tagged with: Autumn 1995, Colin James, David Lange, Issue 17, Jonathan Hudson and Associates, Winter 1995
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

What about the workers? A historical view, John Roberts

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand John E Martin, Allen and Unwin/Trade Union History Project, Wellington, 1990, $35.95 New Zealand Working People 1890-1990 Stevan Eldred-Grigg Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990, $34.95 Nuclear Free:…

Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, David Lange, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 1, John E Martin, John McIndoe, John Roberts, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology