Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Young Kiwi, 1904-31; Chapter 2. The MP for Motueka, 1932-38; Chapter 3. Motueka to Pahiatua, 1938-49; Chapter 4. Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister, 1949-57; Chapter 5. Kinloch; Chapter 6. Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition, 1957-60; Chapter 7. Prime Minister, 1960-72; Chapter 8. Social Transformation, 1960-72; Chapter 9: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Nuclear Testing.; Chapter 10. Decolonisation, the Commonwealth and Africa.; Chapter 11. Collective Security and Forward Defence in South East Asia; Chapter 12. Vietnam, 1960-65; Chapter 13. Vietnam, 1966-72; Chapter 14. China; Chapter 15. Britain's Entry to the EEC; Chapter 16. The New Zealand Economy, 1960-72; Chapter 17. From Prime Minister to Minister of State, 1972-77; Chapter 18. Governor General, 1977-80, and the Final Years, 1980-83

About the Author

Barry Gustafson ONZM, former Professor of Politics at the University of Auckland, is the author of a number of books including histories of the Labour and National Parties and highly acclaimed biographies of Savage and Muldoon. The latter, His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon (AUP), won the ARANZ Ian Wards Prize.

Reviews

"This biography is an outstanding contribution to New Zealand's political history." --New Zealand Journal of History

"This biography is an outstanding contribution to New Zealand's political history." --New Zealand Journal of History