Too empathetic to last? New Zealander Jacinda Ardern publishes her memoirs
As New Zealand's leader from 2017 to 2023, she embodied a different way of doing politics, one that was humanist and generous. The publication of her memoirs ("Another Art of Power," in bookstores June 18) is an opportunity for the foreign press to question the viability of her legacy, now that she has changed direction.
Terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 (51 dead), volcanic eruption on White Island a few months later (22 dead), Covid-19 epidemic from 2020: during her six years in power, from 2017 to 2023, Jacinda Ardern had to guide her fellow New Zealanders through “some of the hardest events in their recent history”, writes the New Zealand Herald .
“Her time as prime minister coincided with one of the most turbulent and defining periods in our history,” The Post agrees . “For Jacinda Ardern, it was also a pivotal time on a personal level: having been told it was unlikely she would ever conceive naturally, she discovered she was pregnant almost simultaneously with her appointment as prime minister,” continues the newspaper, published in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.
Personal and professional threads intertwine in Another Art of Power, the political memoirs of the Labour leader. Announced on June 18 by Flammarion, the original version was already published on June 3.
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