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Anderton - His Life and Times by David Grant
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Jim Anderton, the Labour rebel who founded a new political movement and became deputy prime minister, is the subject of this compelling, warts-and-all biography by award-winning historian David Grant. From his position as the Party's most outspoken president, Jim Anderton became a backbencher in David L ...Show more
Field Punishment No. 1: Archibald Baxter, Mark Briggs and New Zealand's Anti-militarist Tradition by David Grant
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of New Zealand's most extraordinary stories describes the courage of the conscientious objectors sent overseas during WW1 in a brutal attempt to force them to renounce their convictions and join the war effort. Despite torture and privation, Archie Baxter and Mark Briggs held out till the end, in on ...Show more
Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas by David Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: Very Good
Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he rose through the ranks, got deeper into left-wing ideology and activity with his membership of the Socia ...Show more
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David Malcolm Grant
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: Very Good
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, ...Show more
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