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Chargement... Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Yearspar Ian Wishart
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A very interesting analysis of all the goings on during Helen Clark's time as prime minister. Quite a bit of the book isn't directly about Helen Clark but her ministers. The author, Ian Wishart, is biased. He is a staunch National party supporter and very conservative. He strongly dislikes Helen Clark. The book was also quite laborious to read and was really too long. I'm now planning to read the recently published biography by Denis Welch to get another side of the story. ( ) Hmmm…not sure what I was expecting but I didn’t enjoy this book. Full of digging the dirt on Helen Clark, and members of the Labour party, and while I was shocked at some of the things I read, I daresay there’s another side to the story. There always is. Didn’t sway me either way in terms of our recent vote. (No, not telling he he) I found it laborious to read. And I don’t think I like books about politics anyway. Don’t ask me why I read it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The Helen Clark we see today is a carefully manufactured, airbrushed political brand. She's also New Zealand's most powerful politician, ever. ABSOLUTE POWER strips away the facade to find what makes the real Helen Clark tick, and explores the track record of a government that boasted it would bring a new age of "frugality and integrity", and an end to "cronyism, sleaze and dishonesty". ABSOLUTE POWER is not just about what happened publicly and what played out on the news each night. It is much more about what was going on behind the scenes - the power plays, the dirty tricks, the Machiavellian maneuvers. The bits the daily media missed. Lord Acton once wrote that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and that the great "are almost always bad". Is Helen Clark the exception to that rule? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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