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Battlers bluffers & bully-boys : how New Zealand's Prime Ministers have shaped our nation / Richard Wolfe.
- Title
- Battlers bluffers & bully-boys : how New Zealand's Prime Ministers have shaped our nation / Richard Wolfe.
- Author
- Wolfe, Richard
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Random House N.Z., 2005.
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- Description
- 255 p. : ill., ports., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Battlers, Bluffers & Bully-Boys: How New Zealand's Prime Ministers have Shaped Our Nation is an essential reference book giving a brief description of each New Zealand Prime Minister, describing their influence at the time they were PM and also their lasting legacies - how their decisions have formed our country over the past 150 years.
- Alternative Title
- Battlers bluffers and bully-boys
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- TAKING RESPONSIBILITY 1856-1872 -- Ch.1 Henry Sewell : premier Prime Minister -- Ch.2 William Fox : gentleman artist and politician -- Ch.3 Edward Stafford : the cost of war -- Ch.4 Alfred Domett : poet of Maoriland -- Ch.5 Frederick Whitaker : a firm hand on the rudder -- Ch.6 Frederick Weld : on the road to self-reliance -- BORROW AND HOPE 1872-1891 -- Ch.7 George Waterhouse : in the shadow of power -- Ch.8 Julius Vogel : an eye on the future -- Ch.9 Daniel Pollen ; didtinguished and faithful colonist -- Ch.10 Harry Atkinson : guerilla tactics -- Ch.11 George Grey : by force of character -- Ch.12 John Hall : all things in moderation -- Ch.13 Robert Stout : politicking from the pulpit -- REIGNING LIBERALS 1891-1912 -- Ch.14 John Ballance : tornado and rain-maker -- Ch.15 Richard Seddon : a glorious disregard for hard knocks -- Ch.16 William Hall-Jones : first officially designated Prime Minister -- Ch.17 Joseph Ward : all across the telegraph -- Ch.18 Thomas Mackenzie : High Commissioner and conservationist -- REFORM, WAR AND DEPRESSION 1912-1935 -- Ch.19 William Massey : the farmer politician -- Ch.20 Francis Bell : a vast storehouse of knowledge -- Ch.21 Gordon Coates : man of action -- Ch.22 George Forbes : political half-back -- THE GREAT EXPERIMENT 1935-1949 -- Ch.23 Michael Joseph Savage : architect of social security -- Ch.24 Peter Fraser : years of strenuous service -- PROSPERITY AND PROTEST 1949-1972 -- Ch.25 Sidney Holland : vigour and sleight of hand -- Ch.26 Keith Holyoake : a man called 'Kiwi' -- Ch.27 Walter Nash : attention to detail -- Ch.28 John Marshall : a gentleman and an author -- TIME FOR CHANGE 1972 TO PRESENT -- Ch.29 Norman Kirk : standing up in the world -- Ch.30 Bill Rowling : a quiet and constant strength -- Ch.31 Robert Muldoon : the way he wanted it -- Ch.32 David Lange : magnificant, tumultuous, tempestuous years -- Ch.33 Geoffrey Palmer : an extremely fortunate career -- Ch.34 Michael Moore : battler for labour -- Ch.35 Jim Bolger : from farm to helm -- Ch.36 Jenny Shipley : coup and coalition -- Ch.37 Helen Clark : pledging her time.
- ISBN
- 1869417151 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005472958
- OCLC
- 65776598
- SCSB-11257455
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library