The Reluctant Politician

Tun Dr Ismail and His Time

Bibliographic Data

ID23550472
AuthorsKee Beng Ooi (0000-0001-7589-860X)
Year2007
Publication date2007-01-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReluctant Politician (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherISEAS Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1355/9789812307293
OpenAlexW608395313
Open LibraryOL35809299M
ISBN9789812307293
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This is the long-awaited biography of 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.

Biography · Decolonization · Economic history · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · asia · Dictionaries · Malaysia · National security · Politicians · politics and government

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