{"product_id":"hardcover-hard-truths-to-keep-singapore-going-english","title":"[Hardcover] Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going (English)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“What am I doing this book for?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI want your readers to know the hard truths. If you believe that this superstructure  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eis the same as other countries in our range, you are dead wrong.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Lee Kuan Yew\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Kuan Yew’s name is nearly synonymous with modern Singapore. Prime Minister for \u003cbr\u003e31 years from 1959 to 1990, he remained in the Cabinet, first as Senior Minister from \u003cbr\u003e1990 to 2004, and then as Minister Mentor, a post created for him, from 2004 to 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy then, he had been in the public eye for 60 years, as a revolutionary leader who \u003cbr\u003esteered Singapore to independence, as a determined Prime Minister who transformed \u003cbr\u003ethe country, and finally, as an elder statesman. Younger Singaporeans have all heard \u003cbr\u003eof him. But to them, he was something of a mythical figure — a Founding Father, \u003cbr\u003edetached and distant and revered and feared all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book picked up from his memoirs of 2000 as Lee engaged a group of journalists \u003cbr\u003eover issues that a younger, more critical population raised in the intervening years. \u003cbr\u003eEach chapter was presented in a question-and-answer format preceded by an\u003cbr\u003eintroduction. From Singapore’s geopolitical realities and the nature of leadership and \u003cbr\u003ethe ruling party, to the contentious issues of race and religion, Lee fielded them all in \u003cbr\u003ehis inimitable style, blunt, often politically incorrect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders would hear from Lee, the unapologetic believer in strong government, in \u003cbr\u003egenes as destiny, and in the view that economics trumps freedoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey would also meet Lee the private man, the devoted caregiver to an ailing wife \u003cbr\u003eand proud father and grandfather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*****\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew candidly imparts his wisdom,as well as his fears, \u003cbr\u003eas he contemplates Singapore’s role in a rapidly changing, and profoundly \u003cbr\u003echallenging, global society. An important addition to Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy, \u003cbr\u003eLee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going illuminates his conviction\u003cbr\u003ethat a prosperous, sustainable future must be built upon the lessons of the past.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Bill Clinton, United States President, 1993–2001\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Minister Mentor Lee has done a wonderful job for Singapore and, further, his views \u003cbr\u003eare so respected outside of Singapore that he is a true world leader.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– George H.W. 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