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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787752203321

Autore

Gustafson Barry

Titolo

Kiwi Keith : a biography of Keith Holyoake / / Barry Gustafson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-77558-578-6

1-86940-518-8

1-77558-103-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (858 p.)

Disciplina

993.03092

Soggetti

Prime ministers - New Zealand

Elections - New Zealand - History - 20th century

New Zealand Politics and government 20th century

New Zealand Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE : The Young Kiwi, 1904-31; CHAPTER TWO : MP for Motueka, 1932-38; CHAPTER THREE : Motueka to Pahiatua, 1938-49; CHAPTER FOUR : Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister, 1949-57; CHAPTER FIVE : Kinloch; CHAPTER SIX : Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Prime Minister Again, 1957-60; CHAPTER SEVEN : Prime Minister, 1960-72; CHAPTER EIGHT : Social Transformation, 1960-72; CHAPTER NINE : Minister of External Affairs, 1960-72, and the Nuclear Issue; CHAPTER TEN : Decolonisation and Africa

CHAPTER ELEVEN : Collective Security and Forward Defence in AsiaCHAPTER TWELVE : Vietnam, 1960-65; CHAPTER THIRTEEN : Vietnam, 1966-72; CHAPTER FOURTEEN : China; CHAPTER FIFTEEN : Britain's Entry to the European Economic Community; CHAPTER SIXTEEN : Holyoake and the Economy, 1960-72; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN : From Prime Minister to Minister of State, 1972-77; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN : Governor-General, 1977-80, and the Final Years, 1980-83; BIBLIOGRAPHY; A, B, C; INDEX; D, E, F; G, H, I; J, K, L; M, N, O; P, Q, R; S,



T, U; V, W, X; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

New Zealand's leading political biographer and author of the bestselling biography of Robert Muldoon now writes a definitive life of another prime minister, Keith Holyoake.  One of our great farming politicians, Holyoake was Prime Minister for over eleven years chiefly in the 1960s, Governor General from 1977 to 1980 and an MP for over 40 years.  Though ?Kiwi' Keith was often derided as pompous and unprincipled, a master of consensus and compromise, Gustafson shows a man with astute understanding of people and political issues, skilled at defusing division and preserving order while encou