Published by Auckland University Press, 2000, 545 pages. 3 cm tear to left of dustjacket spine, small tear/chip to right, dustjacket worn, but has been covered in plastic to protect, and tears mended from interior with brown paper.

This the only authorized biography of New Zealand's prime minister, Robert Muldoon - one of the dominant political figures of the last half-century in that country.

Based on many hours of conversation with Muldoon himself as well as colleagues, friends, and family, and wide access to the prime minister's official and private papers and diaries, this book has been awarded the Ian Wards Prize for published historical writing.

Muldoon is shown as a champion of the ordinary people whose vision over time became anachronistic and inflexible.