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Bullshit, Backlash and Bleeding Hearts
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A Confused Person's Guide to the Great Race Row
By
David Slack
This item is currently unavailable.We will email you when this item comes back into stock. | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 199 pages | | Release Date: | 08 June 2004 | At last, the book that digs behind the slogans, myths, mud-slinging and misconceptions on ALL sides of the current Treaty and race debate to explain exactly where we are, how we got here and where we're heading. Where did this Pakeha backlash come from? Just how 'privileged' are Maori? Can anyone define the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi? Is Don Brash playing with fire or is he just saying what needed to be said? Using a wide range of sources, from the politicians driving the debate to acknowledged experts and the best cultural commentators, author David Slack leads us through the political minefields, the talkback battle zones and the dinner party arguments to answer these and other vital questions about the state we're in. |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books (NZ) | | ISBN: | 014301952X |
| EAN: | 9780143019527 |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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 – Customer review on 19/02/2007
Written by a former political sppech writer, this is a good introduction to the issues surrounding the biggest issue in New Zealand history and politics... very readable, well researched and drawing on key primary sources, and filled with excerpts from interviews from key players in the issues themselves, this helps to clear up some of the issues, if people have ears to hear...
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– Customer review on 16/06/2004
Whether or not Helen Clark's inquiry into the Treaty gets off the ground, two new books will soon contribute to the country's hottest argument.
David Slack's rollicking Bullshit, Backlash and Bleeding Hearts: A confused person's guide to The Great Race Row (Penguin) hits bookstores this week. In August there'll be Marcia Stenson's more restrained but equally thoughtful The Treaty (Random House).
Slack, a speechwriter and one of that rare breed running a successful internet business (speeches.com), says his book was born out of "people talking about the Treaty without knowing what they were complaining about". That led to a quiz on his blog (Island Life on publicaddress.net), with most of the 5300 who've taken the test unable to get near a pass mark.
Slack prefaces most chapters with one of his 12 "test your treaty knowledge" questions, followed by a talkback quote, such as "I'll tell you what they had when we got here. Nothing. They were running around in grass skirts, killing and eating each other".
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