{"product_id":"fridays-with-jim-ebook","title":"Fridays with Jim Ebook","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"strapline\"\u003eA former New Zealand prime minister candidly reviews his life and the state of the nation\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Robert Muldoon and Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. As ambassador to Washington, he helped create warmer relations with the United States. In recent years, he has chaired boards, has been the chancellor of the University of Waikato and marked more than a half-century of marriage to Joan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever given to orthodoxies, yet staunchly National in his politics, in his still-energetic eighties he remains an impressively brisk progressive thinker. For six months he regularly sat down on Fridays with the writer David Cohen to reflect on his life and times, our nation and the world. Fridays with Jim reveals a quintessential man of the old New Zealand who is fully in sync with the new New Zealand, and with plenty of ideas about where it’s all heading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo look inside, click\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/masseypress\/docs\/fridays_with_jim_look_inside\" title=\"Fridays with Jim look inside\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"strapline\"\u003e‘In exploring the life and times of Bolger through his conversations over the best part of a year, Cohen ranges widely. Besides its political content, and its reflections on leadership, his fine book journeys into Bolger’s past, his family origins in Ireland, the strength he drew from his upbringing in Taranaki, and his fervent Catholicism. This, together with the extended speeches he delivered in places as far apart as Mumbai and Georgetown University in Washington, gives the book real depth.’ — Ian Templeton,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsroom.co.nz\/books-of-the-week-portraits-of-two-prime-ministers\" title=\"Newsroon\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNewsroom\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Massey Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67705566298432,"sku":"FWJE","price":9.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/6614\/6624\/files\/9780995123021.jpg?v=1769562370","url":"https:\/\/masseypress.ac.nz\/products\/fridays-with-jim-ebook","provider":"Massey Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}