Would u spent 39,90 to buy this ?
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THREE senior Straits Times journalists have written a book on the ruling People's Action Party, describing the conflicts and the power struggles of the PAP's early years.
The 692-page book also lifts the veil from some of the most dramatic events in the party's 55-year history, such as the first leftist plot to seize control in 1957 and how Mr Lee Kuan Yew's parliamentary secretary came to lead the challenge against the prime minister in 1961.
However, its most outstanding feature is the voices of leftists in the retelling of key events.
Many of them were giving their views for the first time. They had lost the struggle for control of the PAP, spent years in detention and exile, and their voices are largely absent from the Singapore story.
Said senior writer Sonny Yap, co-author of the book: 'Although many of them spent years in detention and suffered tremendous privations, they betrayed no bitterness and rancour while recounting their experiences.'
Mr Yap, 59, co-wrote the book with The Sunday Times features editor Richard Lim, 60, and senior writer Leong Weng Kam, 55.
Their final product - Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapore's Ruling Political Party - is published by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
To write it, the trio interviewed 300 party members, opponents and observers, 25 of whom have since died. Among those they spoke to were leftists banished from Singapore. The interviews with many of them were conducted where they now reside, in Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and China.
The authors also relied on 200 taped interviews with politicians deposited with the National Archives and 60 years of press reports in the local Chinese, Malay and English newspapers, as well as government and parliament records.
The book will be launched by SPH at The Arts House on Sept 8. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will be the guest of honour and some 150 past and present PAP and non-PAP politicans will be present.
The book, which has a print run of 30,000, will be available at leading bookstores after the launch at $39.90 a copy before GST.
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a new textbook?
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MM LKY launch a book written to tell the "Other Side" of the story - from those whom LKY had incarcerated for years ?
If such a book can get his endorsement, it would have printed contents that have been selectively cleared to have please MM LKY.
Can we believe in such a simple gesture of any reconcilliation with those whom he had incarcerated without any apology ?
Even the simple speech by NMP Viswa Sadasingam concerning The Pledge - had been given a dishonest critique by MM LKY in narrowing his skewed interpretation of the NMP's speech as delving only on equality of races.
With so much to hide, will the past be revealed in its honest entirety ?
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the fact that it comes with MM Lee endorsement, pretty much sum up the erroneous ancedote it serve to offer.
but nevertheless something a little more intrigue for green bird like me
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Originally posted by frosterbeer:
the fact that it comes with MM Lee endorsement, pretty much sum up the erroneous ancedote it serve to offer.
but nevertheless something a little more intrigue for green bird like me
If you are interested in something more then a little intrigue, try the following more honest first hand accounts of the history that passed us by:-‘No Man is an Island – James Minchin’ (*1)
‘Leaders of Singapore – Melanie Chew’ (*2)
‘Comet in Our Sky : Lim Chin Siong in History – KS Jomo & Tan Jing Quee’ (*3)
‘My Side of History – Chin Peng’ (*4)
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If you are interested in something more then a little intrigue, try the following more honest first hand accounts of the history that passed us by:-‘No Man is an Island – James Minchin’ (*1)
‘Leaders of Singapore – Melanie Chew’ (*2)
‘Comet in Our Sky : Lim Chin Siong in History – KS Jomo & Tan Jing Quee’ (*3)
‘My Side of History – Chin Peng’ (*4)
Fantastic, thanks
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If you are interested in something more then a little intrigue, try the following more honest first hand accounts of the history that passed us by:-‘No Man is an Island – James Minchin’ (*1)
‘Leaders of Singapore – Melanie Chew’ (*2)
‘Comet in Our Sky : Lim Chin Siong in History – KS Jomo & Tan Jing Quee’ (*3)
‘My Side of History – Chin Peng’ (*4)
They may or may not be true, but history is always written by the victors.
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i think i will borrow this book from the library instead
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Originally posted by dadeadman1337:
They may or may not be true, but history is always written by the victors.
It is also re-written by those who are insecure of their past and worried about the future, and require History to be re-written without the honesty of facts that are best discarded with the ashes from the memories.Japan is re-writing history to suit its present and future agenda, and so is the PAP.
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Unless it is banned in singapore... else it is allowed printed media from gahmen and censorship board... so nothing's interesting about it.
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Originally posted by caleb_chiang:
Unless it is banned in singapore... else it is allowed printed media from gahmen and censorship board... so nothing's interesting about it.
Yes, let me know if you can get the first two in the list in Singapore. -
wha ta bunch of suckups! that is no diff from the ST's Chua sisters.
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If not endorsed, then the book will never be published.
Either that or it will be banned.
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If the book has LKY signature on it, yea will do.
Sell it for auction when he died. :D
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Gotta browse the book to decide whether to buy it. If it is full of crap, full of propangada stuff I will not buy it.