Reviews round-up
A Different Kind of Power
by Jacinda Ardern
2 of 7 critics positive
7 reviews: 2 positives, 3 mixed, 2 pans
What the critics said
“a refreshingly informal narrator of her remarkable rise and fall”
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern review – not your usual PM
“explores the possibility and limits of benevolence”
Review | How kind can a leader be? Jacinda Ardern makes the case for compassion.
“political memoir is merely a warm embrace”
A Different Kind of Power: Jacinda Ardern's political memoir is merely a warm embrace
“seems more concerned with the symbols of politics than the actual politics”
Jacinda Ardern’s unexamined life
“Ardern misses an opportunity to reflect more deeply on her time in power”
In her memoir, Jacinda Ardern shows a ‘different kind of power’ is possible – but also has its limits
“Jacinda Ardern’s virtue-signalling memoir is like one long therapy session”
Jacinda Ardern’s virtue-signalling memoir is like one long therapy session
“boasts about her ethos of compassion, but ignores the failure of her”
The problem with Jacinda Ardern’s ‘kindness’
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