|
|
'Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Maori leadership' - this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs created by rangatahi enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader. Featuring in-depth interviews with more than 100 Ma...ori leaders spanning the length and breadth of Aotearoa.
Read more
|
|
|
The fascinating story of an international icon - one of the world's most inspiring, progressive leaders. Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the ...rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting. Oprah Winfrey invited us to 'channel our inner Jacindas' as praise for Ardern flooded headlines and social media. The world's youngest female head of government, and only the second elected world leader to give birth while in office, Ardern describes herself as a progressive and a social democrat. In this revealing biography, journalist Madeleine Chapman discovers the woman behind the headlines. Politically engaged from an early age, Ardern has encountered her fair share of sexism, but rather than let that harden her she advocates 'rising above' critics. In her first press conference, she announced an election campaign of 'relentless positivity'. The tactic was a resounding success: donations poured in and Labour rebounded in the polls. But can Ardern live up to her promise? What does her new style of leadership look like in practice? And what can we learn from the world's reaction to this inspiring leader?
Read more
|
|
|
|
By Bryant, Nick
|
- RRP: $40.00
- $30.00
- Save $10.00
- In Stock At Publisher
|
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, B...ryant shows how the billionaire capitalised on the mistakes of his five predecessors, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and how also he became a beneficiary of a broken politics, an iniquitous economy, an ailing media, a facile culture, disruptive new technology and the creation of a modern-day presidency that elevated showmanship over statesmanship. Not only are we starting to see the emergence of a post-American world, Bryant fears we are seeing the emergence of a post-American America. The history of Trump's rise is also a history of America's fall - not only are we witnessing America's post-millennial decline, but also the country's disintegration.
Read more
|
|
|
|
By Osnos, Evan
|
- RRP: $32.99
- $25.73
- Save $7.26
- In Stock At Publisher
|
A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career ...that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden's life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and a range of progressive activists, advisers, opponents, and Biden family members. In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy - a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history.
Read more
|
|
|
|
By Bolton, John
|
- RRP: $39.99
- $31.19
- Save $8.80
- In Stock At Publisher
|
Bolton's account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and
others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to
deal with Syria's chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after
that never stop. As he says in the opening pages,... "If you don't like
turmoil, uncertainty, and risk; all the while being constantly overwhelmed
with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work; and
enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond
description, try something else." The conflicts, ego and otherwise, are all
there-from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves
of North Korea's Kim Jong Un. But so too is the story of a chaotic White
House and of a President with his own set a rules. "The differences between
this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning," writes
Bolton, who served Reagan, and George HW Bush and George W. Bush. His
account makes that clear.
Read more
|
|
|
Pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, [Kendzior] reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy: how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burge...oning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades --
Read more
|
|
|
Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. This family of widows and fatherless children has been cursed with nearly unimaginable losses - yet, even today, there remains a glamorous aura around the indomitable Kennedys.
|
|
|
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.
|
|
|
A Promised Land
(Trade Paperback / Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
By Obama, Barack
|
- RRP: $99.99
- $79.63
- Save $20.36
- Pub Date
8 Dec 20
|
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Obama tells of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in striking detail his political education and the landmark moments of his first t...erm.
Read more
|
|
|
The story of how undisclosed donations - 'dark money'- have infiltrated British politics, undermining public faith in democracy and fuelling the rise of populism across the West.
|
