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ANDERTON: His life and times, by David Grant (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $50 hb)

hroughout his long political career, Jim Anderton rejected political or personal compromise. Four years after his death in 2018, aged 79, opinion about the man and his politics remains divided. For better or worse, Anderton is still a figurehead for one of the most tumultuous periods in New Zealand’s

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