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Man of secrets : the private life of Donald McLean / Matthew Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland : Penguin, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 256 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143572213
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Man of secrets : the private life of Donald McLeanDDC classification:
  • 993.022092 23
Contents:
Introduction: heroes and demons -- 1. God and guilt -- 2. By divine providence -- 3. Salad days and self-worth -- 4. Love for a woman, love for life -- 5. Lure of land -- 6. Happiness snatched away -- 7. Labouring for redemption -- 8. Love's labours - lost? -- 9. Monarch of Hawke's Bay -- 10. Ultimate power -- Epilogue: collisions of history.
Summary: "The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures, and provoked war between Māori along the way. The man who, rumour insists, used his power as our Minister of Defence to order the shooting of his own illegitimate son, the right-hand man of religious leader Te Kooti"--Publisher information.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 993.022092 MCL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A528364B

"Land buyer. Politician. Secret benefactor. Private lover. A man at war with himself."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: heroes and demons -- 1. God and guilt -- 2. By divine providence -- 3. Salad days and self-worth -- 4. Love for a woman, love for life -- 5. Lure of land -- 6. Happiness snatched away -- 7. Labouring for redemption -- 8. Love's labours - lost? -- 9. Monarch of Hawke's Bay -- 10. Ultimate power -- Epilogue: collisions of history.

"The hard-tempered Scot whose policies shaped New Zealand's colonial-age race relations, and gave rise to grievances that echo into the twenty-first century. The government official who used his position to get land for his personal ventures, and provoked war between Māori along the way. The man who, rumour insists, used his power as our Minister of Defence to order the shooting of his own illegitimate son, the right-hand man of religious leader Te Kooti"--Publisher information.

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