Helen Clark: A Political Life

 Author: Welch Denis
Published: 3 Aug 2009 
ISBN 13: 9780143202417 
ISBN 10: 0143202413 
RRP: $40.00 
Type: PAPERBACK (PB) 
Format: ROYAL TRADE PAPERBACK 230 X 152 MM (C) 
Pages: 240 Edition: 1
Imprint: PENGUIN 


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Helen Clark led the Labour Party for 15 years, resurrecting it from the rifts of Rogernomics before becoming one of New Zealand's most successful leaders. Her term as Prime Minister lasted nine years. Clark's wider tenure in politics, however, stretches from the anti-war protests of 1968 through the rise of feminism, environmentalism and market forces, to the global financial crisis of 2008 - 40 years of extraordinary political change.

Remarkably, no political biography of Helen Clark has been written before. Here, for the first time, is the full story of how Clark rose to power and held both the Labour Party and the New Zealand Government together, cementing her place in our country's political history.

This is an unauthorised biography.