This is an auction for JOHN A LEE by Erik Olssen.

"John A. Lee is one of the most colourful characters to have appeared on the New Zealand political scene. He was:

• A soldier
• An early member of the Labour Party
• The author of novels which shocked New Zealand
• Under-Secretary for Housing in the first Labour Government
• An antagonist of the revered Labour leader Michael Joseph Savage
• The leader, after his expulsion from the Labour Party, of the short-lived Democratic Labour Party
• The editor of John A. Lee's Weekly

and

• An honorary graduate of the University of Otago.

"In this sympathetic biography, Erik Olssen traces his career and tries to account for his troubles as well as his triumphs."

From Wikipedia:

"John Alfred Alexander Lee DCM (1891–1982) was a New Zealand politician and writer. He is one of the more prominent avowed socialists in New Zealand's political history. Lee was elected as a member of parliament in 1922. After the Labour Party's victory in 1935, Lee was passed over for appointment to cabinet, instead becoming an under-secretary. He became a critic of the leadership of his party and was expelled in 1940, subsequently founding his own left-wing party, the Democratic Labour Party. He lost his parliamentary seat at the 1943 election. He remained strongly hostile to the Labour Party, and denounced its leaders as traitors to the working class. In 1963, he published his political memoirs, Simple on a Soap-box. He continued to comment on political matters, and surprised many with his defence of the United States in the Vietnam War..."

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Lee

University of Otago Press hardback 1977.

223 pages.

Photographs throughout.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.

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