His Way: A Biography of Robert MuldoonAuckland University Press, 2000 - 545 من الصفحات Robert Muldoon was Prime Minister of New Zealand for eight and a half years (1975-1984) and Minister of Finance for fifteen years (1967-72 and 1975-84) during one of the most difficult periods in the country's history. He was the dominant figure in New Zealand's political life over the last half century and one of its most controversial and divisive politicians. This major 'authorised' biography has occupied Professor Gustafson for ten years; it has been extensively researched and long awaited. From the opening chapters with their revealing account of Muldoon's childhood, His Way is gripping reading and will be of wide interest. The chapters on the calling of the 1984 election and on the currency crisis immediately after the election, for example, break new ground. Gustafson's view of Muldoon is fair and tolerant without either anger or sentimentality. It sees him as a champion of ordinary people, a skilled politician determined to preserve the world he had inherited, and an autocratic leader whose vision over time became anachronistic and inflexible. His Way is also, and inevitably, a picture of the changing political landscape from the 1940s to the 1980s, turbulent times very different from the years of depression and war in which Muldoon grew up and which so powerfully shaped his values and perspectives. The book is based on many hours of conversation with Muldoon himself and on interviews with political colleagues, civil servants, family and friends; it is rich with telling detail and revealing anecdote. Gustafoson's masterly biography provides for the first time a detached and detailed assessment of an extraordinary political figure. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Family and Childhood | 17 |
School and Church | 27 |
War and Work | 35 |
The Junior Nationals and Marriage | 45 |
The Mount Albert 1954 | 53 |
The MP for Tamaki 196063 | 64 |
The UnderSecretary 196366 | 81 |
Economic Restructuring and Think Big after 1978 | 262 |
The Colonels Coup 1980 | 290 |
The Springbok Tour and the 1981 Election | 309 |
Third World Debt the Clyde Dam the Quigley Affair | 322 |
Unions Consumers and Finance Houses | 343 |
The 1984 Election | 362 |
The PostElection Currency Crisis | 384 |
Muldoon McLay | 398 |
Minister of Finance 196769 | 92 |
The End of the Holyoake Era 196972 | 115 |
ΙΟ In Opposition 197275 | 131 |
The 1975 Election | 152 |
Power Personality and Political Process | 173 |
SIS Abortion the Moyle Affair and the GovernorGeneral | 192 |
Foreign Policy and Overseas Trade 197578 | 214 |
National Superannuation and Restoring New Zealands | 237 |
Court Cases Radio Pacific and the 1987 Election | 423 |
The Global Economic Action Institute and the 1990 Election | 436 |
Mr Speaker I Say Goodbye | 450 |
Notes | 472 |
Bibliography | 523 |
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