Title: Along for the ride
Description: The author of sixteen published books, including the award-winning Sugarbag Years, Tony is one of New Zealand's best known social historians. But through his working life he has also been a witness to and participant in major events shaping current society: irritating Muldoon, watching Thatcher's rise during his OE, seeing off the Lange government and its Rogernomics, and ultimately serving as senior advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton. With dollops of wry wit, Along for the Ride offers us a politically committed insider's probing insights into some of recent history's most momentous changes.
Subjects: Political and social views, Historians, Biography, Labor union members, Civil service, Politics and government
Places: New Zealand
People: Tony Simpson (1945-)
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century