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Title: Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Author: Lee
ISBN: 9780130208033
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 680
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Visionary? Authoritarian? Model for the West? Lee Kuan Yew, the long-time leader of Singapore, has been called all these things, and more. In these vivid memoirs, Lee takes a profoundly personal look back at the events that led to Singapore’s independence and shaped its struggle for success. And, as always, he lets the chips fall where they intimate detail, Lee recounts Singapore’s unforgettable history. You’ll be with Lee as he leads striking unionists against the colonial government; shares tea and rounds of golf with key players in Britain and Malaya; and drinks warm Anchor beer with leaders of the communist underground at secret midnight meetings. From British colonial rule through Japanese occupation in World War II, Communist insurrection, riots, independence — and the struggles that followed — few political memoirs anywhere have been this blunt, or this interested in the political history of Singapore, Asia, and the modern world.
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