Man of Secrets
Subtitle: The Private Life of Donald Mclean
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780143572213
Subjects: Statesmen, biography; New zealand, biography; Maori (new zealand people); New zealand, politics and government
Description: "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.