Author: Matthew Wright
Title: Man Of Secrets: The Private Life Of Donald Mclean
Description: Penguin 2015 Paperback, 256pp. Donald McLean. 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 Maori 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. McLean's role as the powerhouse behind some of the most heated land controversies of settler-era New Zealand is well known. But the man behind those deeds has remained largely hidden. Man of Secrets , an absorbing new biography by Matthew Wright, goes behind the public persona, revealing the private Donald McLean. foxing to endpapers and page edges. (ISBN: 9780143572213). Fair.

Keywords: Biography, History, Politics, NZ9780143572213 9780143572213


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