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Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore (Paperback)
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Believer - Conversations with Mike Moore (Paperback)
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List price R570
Loot Price R467
Discovery Miles 4 670
You Save R103 (18%)
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Michael Kenneth Moore was probably New Zealand's last working-class
Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is
also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi
achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations
held with Mike Moore over the past 12 months and reflections on his
life and career involving people who were part of it. The chapters
focus on key moments in his life - growing up partially crippled in
poverty in rural Northland, moving to Auckland and becoming a trade
unionist and New Zealand's youngest MP, losing his seat and
fighting the Labour Party to get another one only to be diagnosed
with cancer, helping make David Lange Prime Minister and beating
Muldoon, the turmoil of the fourth Labour Government including
becoming Prime Minister for only 59 days, taking Labour to within
two seats of Government and being cruelling deposed as leader by
Helen Clark in 1993, the years in wilderness when he came close to
setting up a new party and not participating in a coup against
Clark, his audacious campaign to become Director General of the
World Trade Organisation, becoming New Zealand's Ambassador to the
US and the stroke that cut it short, and his hopes for the future.
In a country that celebrates sporting success Moore's story is also
heroic because he has the same traits of smarts, hard work and
determination to achieve at the highest levels - despite numerous
setbacks - that all New Zealanders admire in the successful.
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