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JACINDA ARDERN: IS THE WORLD READY?
She’s being tipped as the next UN Secretary-General, but she currently lives in a kind of self-imposed political exile from her native New Zealand.
This new Jacinda book is not her own “A Different Kind of Power”. Click on the “Let’s Do This!” link below and you’ll be among the first in the world to get a FREE, preview of what history may come to view as the first definitive, independent analysis of the political juggernaut that was – and still is – Jacinda Ardern.
The young, charismatic New Zealand prime minister became an iconic figure on the global stage, and this new unauthorised biography investigation puts all this in context as Ardern waits in the wings for what may become her biggest role yet.
In a world of furious spin and counterspin about Jacinda Ardern, are you ready for the real story?
Drawn from interviews with more than 100 sources and a painstaking assembly of facts, the new Jacinda book goes where no author has yet gone – into a blow by blow, both sides, critical analysis of her leadership and what that might mean for a world on a powderkeg.
“I seriously doubt whether she had much of a programme at all… I mean, it appears she hadn't even read the Treaty of Waitangi.”
Others say she had a clear plan:
“She was the first Prime Minister who actually treated us politely and with respect. We're not used to that. She acknowledged He Whakaputanga, the Declaration of Independence of 1835, and she acknowledged Te Tiriti as well, and it was the Māori ones, He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti and that she wanted her daughter to grow up knowing those documents and understanding them. And I thought, oi this is very good rhetoric.”
There are those who say Ardern opened Pandora’s box:
“We didn’t spend enough time debating serious things in Cabinet that I can recall...Her kindness rhetoric fed expectations she could never deliver on... it fed the hunger that is now evident in the Māori Party.”
Jacinda Ardern effectively trademarked “Be Kind”:
“She's a genuinely nice person who cares about people.”
Others say it’s an acquired taste:
“It was a well-honed skill of avoidance... a Betty Crocker cake recipe of kindness.”
Was it hype?
“The marketing department was in overdrive but the operations department was almost non-existent.”
“The Christchurch Call was a farce of a joke… What’s your reaction to something that you can’t fix? The answer is you make an announcement. Make a big headline.”
Or was it horsepower?
“And suddenly there'd been all these magazine... Women's magazine covers and stuff. It was like, whoa, you know, out of nowhere. Suddenly she is the zeitgeist of Labour and she has done all these soft media. And yeah, it just almost seemed like it was overnight. And it was just quite incredible.”
“And I saw and she was totally in profile and obviously her minder saw them and said something - ‘do you want to say hi to the prime minister or something?’. And she looked up and I tell you, it was like someone turning on an incandescent light. It was just poom - and I have never seen that in my life before. And I looked at and I thought, my God. And she got up and her face just radiated warmth and caring and just energy and just for that split second, for that, those few minutes, the smile, the eyes, the demeanor, the energy was palpable. And then those kids, young people walked away. Now the sheep came in, straight back. Look, it wasn't like a switch off. It was like maybe five, ten, fifteen, thirty seconds. And I was watching her intently because I was - I am interested, - I'm very interested in people. And I like getting a sense of what makes them tick. And I thought, oh, blimey, this is as startling. The fact that she just then totally withdrew. The energy just dripped away from her to the point that she was barely there. You felt like there was almost no energy.”
DAVID COHEN
AUTHOR
“Cohen moves so gracefully across narratives, scientific discourses, artistic genres, historical periods and continents that you hardly notice the full force of his prose.”
— Professor Roy Richard Grinker, George Washington University
“I adore his work”
— Julie Burchill
“As sharp as an assassin’s stiletto.”
Landfall
“Without exception, Cohen’s writing reveals a depth of knowledge and an attention to detail in his research on his subject matter that sets him apart ... [b]ut he is capable of beauty, too.”
New Zealand Herald
“Bristles with crisp, audacious suggestiveness … and is often simply a sheer joy to read.”
New Zealand Books
David Cohen lives, works and writes in Wellington. His articles have been published widely in New Zealand and abroad, including the Spectator, Arab News, The Australian, NZ Listener and the Telegraph. He is the author of nine books, and has co-authored or contributed essays to several others. An earlier work, Fridays with Jim (Massey University Press), was about former prime minister Jim Bolger.
IT’S A DEBATE WE NEED TO HAVE:
“(I)t was Ardern, in her particular skill for proceeding with empathy and caution, who showed the community, the country and ultimately the world, what it meant to apply political balm…”
“Now, I was in a conversation where John Key said that, you know, obviously he'd been pretty successful in terms of Helen Clark, Goff, Shearer and Little. And I can recall him saying that the only person on the front bench that he thought had the capacity to challenge us was Jacinda."
“And I can remember the sort of ripple of what that went through the room when he said that. And he didn't elaborate on it. It was just his instinct that she had. You know, she had a bit of star power.”
“I don't think any other prime minister has done as much damage.”
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