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Title:
Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapores Rulling Political Party
Genre:
Politics
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Binding:
Hardcover
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:19:50
Synopsis:
Untold story of PAP
Men in White includes leftists accounts of the battle for power.
By Zakir Hussain, Political Correspondent
THREE senior Straits Times journalists have written a book on the ruling Peoples Action Party, describing the conflicts and the power struggles of the PAPs early years.
The 692-page book also lifts the veil from some of the most dramatic events in the partys 55-year history, such as the first leftist plot to seize control in 1957 and how Mr Lee Kuan Yews 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, senior writer Leong Weng Kam, 55, and The Sunday Times features editor Richard Lim, 60, worked on the book for seven years.
Their final product - Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapores 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 who were banished from Singapore and 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 that were 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.
Men in White includes leftists accounts of the battle for power.
By Zakir Hussain, Political Correspondent
THREE senior Straits Times journalists have written a book on the ruling Peoples Action Party, describing the conflicts and the power struggles of the PAPs early years.
The 692-page book also lifts the veil from some of the most dramatic events in the partys 55-year history, such as the first leftist plot to seize control in 1957 and how Mr Lee Kuan Yews 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, senior writer Leong Weng Kam, 55, and The Sunday Times features editor Richard Lim, 60, worked on the book for seven years.
Their final product - Men in White: The Untold Story of Singapores 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 who were banished from Singapore and 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 that were 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.
Author:
Kam Leong
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Barcode:
9789814266246
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:19:50
