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Memoir

Jacindamania

A memoir infused with Kiwi pride
by Zora Simic
August 2025, no. 478

A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin, $55 hb, 352 pp

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New Zealand/Aotearoa is a small country, with a population of roughly five million people, but as former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern enthuses in her memoir A Different Kind of Power, it regularly punches above its weight. Not that she is one to toot her own horn, at least in an obvious fashion, but let’s take her prime ministership as a vivid case in point.

 


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A Different Kind of Power: A memoir by Jacinda Ardern

Penguin, $55 hb, 352 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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