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The decent society, John Pagani
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 Margaret Clark (ed) Dunmore Publishing, $37.95, ISBN 9781877399336 I have to confess to having taunted Margaret Clark in the past for her incuriosity. A few years ago she demanded in a newspaper answers and explanations from…
Tagged with: Autumn 2009, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 85, John Pagani, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Not quite Camelot, Simon Upton
For the Record: Lange and the Fourth Labour Government ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 1877399108 The hold-a-conference, publish-a-book industry continues in full swing with the appearance of For the Record: Lange and the Fourth Labour Government. This volume,…
Tagged with: Dunmore Publishing, Issue 74, Margaret Clark, Simon Upton, Winter 2006
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
JMT rules, ok, Laurence Jenkins
John Mansfield Thomson: Notes towards a Biography ed Margaret Clark with Jim Collinge and Martin Lodge Steele Roberts, $39.95, ISBN 1877228923 Those of us who crossed paths with John Mansfield Thomson, and there are legions, inevitably came away from any…
Tagged with: Issue 66, Jim Collinge, John Mansfield Thomson, Margaret Clark, Martin Lodge, Steele Roberts, Winter 2004
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
Absolutely positive it’s dead? Tim Hazledine
Muldoon Revisited ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864694652 What were you doing the day Robert Muldoon died? I was in Auckland, very recently returned to this country after 20 years overseas. I watched the coverage of the death…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 65, Margaret Clark, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
“Something like a cult”, Margaret Clark
Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840-2000 Malcolm McKinnon Auckland University Press, $50, ISBN 1869402960 At the launch of this book a former assistant secretary to the Treasury pointed out to me that this is an administrative history of the Treasury,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 62, Malcolm McKinnon, Margaret Clark, Winter 2003
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Steady as she goes, Colin James
Holyoake’s Lieutenants ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 8864694369 I came across Norm Shelton a day or two after Jack Marshall sacked him in February 1972 at the end of the Holyoake era. He had a pile of complimentary…
Tagged with: Autumn 2003, Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 61, Keith Holyoake, Margaret Clark
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Meet the monsters, Tony Simpson
Three Labour Leaders: Nordmeyer, Kirk, Rowling ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469394X Mirrors on the Hill: Reflections on New Zealand’s Political Leaders Keith Eunson Dunmore Press, $29.95, ISBN 086469385 To the uninitiated, looking in askance from without, politics…
Tagged with: Arnold Nordmeyer, December 2001, Dunmore Press, Issue 51, Keith Eunson, Margaret Clark, Norman Kirk, Tony Simpson, Wallace (Bill) Rowling
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
A fitting tribute, Jim Collinge
The Roberts Report ed Margaret Clark Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0 86473 383 6 In recent months, many of us in Wellington have made a number of mournful trips to Old St Pauls for the funerals of people whose…
Tagged with: Issue 43, Jim Collinge, Margaret Clark, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review
Having the numbers, Margaret Clark
Bolger: A View from the Top Jim Bolger Penguin, $44.95, ISBN 0670 88369 7 This account of Jim Bolger’s seven years as Prime Minister has the great virtue of being written while events were still fresh in his mind. In…
Tagged with: Issue 37, Jim Bolger, Margaret Clark, Penguin Books
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review