In The Dirty Decade, Stephen Stratford gives us an entertaining portrait in words and pictures of the adolescent decade that changed New Zealand forever. In the 1980s he went from the state-owned Listener to the tiny left-wing New Outlook, from More magazine to the Rugby World Cup, from sharemarket darling Strathmore to Metro. This is his cheerfully one-eyed eyewitness accounT of those years. The Dirty Decade includes a timeline listing significant or just ridiculous events, New Zealand films, bestselling books and hit songs of each year, time-warp recipes, and many unpublished photographs documenting the changes of the decade. A look back at the 80s, and the tumultuous changes in New Zealand life and lives.