Singapore's longest serving President looks back on his life from being a teenager on the run , through living by his wits during the Japanese occupation, acquiring a more formal education after the war and rising up through the ranks of the civil service to becoming President. The account is all the more interesting because the author's personal reflections on an adult life which coincided with the city's emergence from war damage and then political turmoil to being the most economically and politically stable country in the region. 672 pages with an index. 

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