Madmen: Inside the Weirdest Election Campaign Ever

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Dirty, shocking, weird, sick, toxic, unbelievable, profound, stupid, harrowing, insane in the brain - New Zealand's 2014 election campaign had it all. It got stranger with every day, and Steve Braunias made it his mission to record the entire black farce in a series of breathless and bizarre campaign diaries. He visited Kim Dotcom's creepy mansion. He stole a dinghy to track down the lost tribe of the Act Party. He fell on hard times, and asked Whale Oil for a job. He invited Nicky Hager to Hamilton, and left him there. And he hung out with John Key on the back seat of the Prime Minister's campaign bus as hallucinogenic substances were passed around...Steve Braunias is in the writing form of his life as he creates a new kind of journalism - funny, lively, mostly accurate, all of it true to life - in this souvenir of the weirdest election campaign in New Zealand political history.

Steve Braunias has won over 30 national writing awards, including fellowships to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, magazine writer of the year (2014), humourist of the year (2014), and best book of non-fiction at the NZ Post Book Awards (2013). He joined the New Zealand Herald as a senior writer in late 2014. Madmen is his sixth book.