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A prime ministerial primer, Simon Upton
New Zealand’s Prime Ministers: From Dick Seddon to John Key Michael Bassett David Ling Publishing, $50.00, ISBN 9781927305294 New Zealand’s Prime Ministers is a very large volume. It is also an extremely ambitious one that is challenging as a through-read.…
Tagged with: David Ling Publishing, Dick Seddon, Issue 119, John Key, Michael Bassett, Simon Upton, Spring 2017
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The Bassett version, Harvey McQueen
Working With David Michael Bassett Hachette Livre, $59.99, ISBN 9781869710941 Working With David is a dogmatic and humourless book about a man who, even in adversity, revelled in laughter. Beginning with clear praise – “at the peak of his career…
Tagged with: Hachette Livre, Harvey McQueen, Issue 84, Michael Bassett, Summer 2008
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The perils of pragmatism, Tim Hazledine
The State in New Zealand 1840-1984: Socialism without doctrines? Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 193 X Unlike George Lucas of Star Wars, Michael Bassett has decided to tell his story in chronological order. He had wanted…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 38, Michael Bassett, Tim Hazledine
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Accentuating the positive, Tom Brooking
The Mother of AlI Departments. The History of the Department of Internal Affairs Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95 ISBN 1 869401751 Safeguarding the Public Health. A History of the New Zealand Department of Health Derek Dow Victoria University Press…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Derek Dow, Issue 34, Michael Bassett, Tom Brooking, Victoria University Press
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Health, History, Non-fiction, Review
Austerity and fecundity, Michael Bassett
James Dilworth R C J Stone Dilworth Trust Books $49.95 ISBN 0 473 02990 1 Plain Living, High Thinking: The Family Story of Jennie and Will Lovell-Smith Margaret Lovell-Smith Pedmore Press $34.95 ISBN 0 473 03033 0 These two books…
Tagged with: Dilworth Trust Books, Issue 32, James Dilworth, Jennie Lovell-Smith, Margaret Lovell-Smith, Michael Bassett, Pedmore Press, R C J Stone, Will Lovell-Smith
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Pieces in the puzzle, Michael Bassett
John Banks: A Biography Paul Goldsmith Penguin Books, $34.95, ISBN 0 140 26712 3 Over recent years there has been some criticism of commissioned histories. An Australian academic, Louella McCarthy, writing in the New Zealand Journal of History in April…
Tagged with: Issue 28, John Banks, Michael Bassett, Paul Goldsmith, Penguin Books, Summer 1997
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
When “liberal and progressive” was OK, Simon Upton
Coates of Kaipara Michael Bassett Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 869401174 For over a decade now public policy in New Zealand has been heavily infused with theory. Politicians have embraced expert advisers and internalised the “science” of economics with…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 20, Michael Bassett, Simon Upton, Summer 1995
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Embers of hope, W H Oliver
Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography Michael Bassett, Auckland University Press, 1993, $39.95 There is a paradox in the 6 November election. Voters objecting to the trend of the past 10 years toward less and weaker government have, in their…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 11, Michael Bassett, Summer 1993, W H Oliver
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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