81,841
edits
David Lange: My Life: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{review|My Life|David Lange|B00BEPOL78|3 November 2007|Fascinating insight into a gifted, complex and influential New Zealand politician}} One might have reservations about...") |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{review|My Life|David Lange|B00BEPOL78|3 November 2007|Fascinating insight into a gifted, complex and influential New Zealand politician}} | {{review|My Life|David Lange|B00BEPOL78|3 November 2007|Fascinating insight into a gifted, complex and influential New Zealand politician}} | ||
One might have reservations about his politics and the trajectory of his carriage of public office, but it is impossible to deny the impact David Lange and his fourth Labour government had on New Zealand society, nor his eloquence as a public speaker and raconteur. When Lange died of complications from renal failure last year New Zealand lost a unique voice and left no obvious successor. | One might have reservations about his politics and the trajectory of his carriage of public office, but it is impossible to deny the impact [[David Lange]] and his fourth Labour government had on New Zealand society, nor his eloquence as a public speaker and raconteur. When Lange died of complications from renal failure last year New Zealand lost a unique voice and left no obvious successor. | ||
This short autobiographical memoir - dictated in his last days, as his eyesight gave out and he could no longer read or write, is a wonderful book. Lange's prose is wonderful in the early stages —- benefitting, I think, from the manner in which he delivered the manuscript (you can almost hear it as an ex tempore public address) - and there is something sombre and moving about the way, as the chapters progress, the fluidity dries up, a function of Lange's failing health and ebbing energy. | This short autobiographical memoir - dictated in his last days, as his eyesight gave out and he could no longer read or write, is a wonderful book. Lange's prose is wonderful in the early stages —- benefitting, I think, from the manner in which he delivered the manuscript (you can almost hear it as an ex tempore public address) - and there is something sombre and moving about the way, as the chapters progress, the fluidity dries up, a function of Lange's failing health and ebbing energy. | ||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Robert Muldoon]] | |||
*[[Wage and price freeze]] | *[[Wage and price freeze]] | ||