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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time


Finally . . . this long-awaited biography of my favourite Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, who passed away of a heart attack on 2 August 1973. It is based on his private papers and on numerous interviews with his relatives and with people who knew him well, including Ghafar Baba, Musa Hitam, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Robert Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew and Ghazalie Shafie. New perspectives are provided about the struggle for independence, Malaysia's relationship with Singapore, the origins of Southeast Asian regionalism, the internal conflicts of the ruling party UMNO, MCA-UMNO ties, the fatal illness of Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, the May 13 riots, and the New Economic Policy. This book contains not only new facts about Malaysian and Singaporean history, but also insights into the processes of decolonization and nation building.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time
Preliminary pages by author, Ooi Kee Beng
2006 311 pages
ISBN 978-981-230-424-7; 981-230-424-X S$29.90/US$19.90
ISBN 978-981-230-425-4; 981-230-425-8 S$59.90/US$39.90

I: MERDEKA OR MEDICINE?
1. The Acting Prime Minister Dies
2. Life before Politics
3. UMNO and the Road to Merdeka
4. Positioning Malaya in the World
5. The Making and Partitioning of Malaysia

II: REMAKING MALAYSIA
6. Forced from Retirement
7. A Lack of Time
8. Nailing Things into Place
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Photographs
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Steve Jobs - Referring to the pirate flag that flew over Apple’s headquaters in 1983. I believe that quote was one of three keyphrases for a large Apple meeting/conference, and the Pirate flag was attached to the Macintosh building after that meeting. So the flag was actually a reaction to that.