{"product_id":"9789811777073","title":"The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew's A-Team","description":"\u003cp\u003eSingapore’s founding fathers are the stuff of legend. Much has\n\u003cbr\u003ebeen written about the indomitable Lee Kuan Yew who\n\u003cbr\u003etransformed a nation from mudflats into metropolis, as well as his\n\u003cbr\u003efellow Old Guard who left their stamp on almost every aspect of\n\u003cbr\u003eSingapore’s DNA, from the economy to diplomacy to housing.\n\u003cbr\u003eBut that is not the whole story.\n\u003cbr\u003eSee, the 10 larger-than-life personalities who signed the\n\u003cbr\u003eSeparation Agreement in 1965 were the nation’s founding\n\u003cbr\u003efathers. But they were also men — men who fell in love, who\n\u003cbr\u003ekept secrets, who wrote ghost stories, who played sports (not\n\u003cbr\u003ejust golf). They were businessmen, bitter men, and some of the\n\u003cbr\u003ebest men Singapore has ever seen. Their names are:\n\u003cbr\u003e● Lee Kuan Yew\n\u003cbr\u003e● Yong Nyuk Lin\n\u003cbr\u003e● E. W. Barker\n\u003cbr\u003e● Goh Keng Swee\n\u003cbr\u003e● Jek Yeun Thong\n\u003cbr\u003e● Lim Kim San\n\u003cbr\u003e● Ong Pang Boon\n\u003cbr\u003e● Othman Wok\n\u003cbr\u003e● S. Rajaratnam\n\u003cbr\u003e● Toh Chin Chye\n\u003cbr\u003eFrom the authors of The Last Fools: The Eight Immortals of Lee\n\u003cbr\u003eKuan Yew comes The First Fools: B-Sides of Lee Kuan Yew’s\n\u003cbr\u003eA-Team. Each chapter in this anthology offers readers a different\n\u003cbr\u003eslice of the same story, one that, in the case of many of the Old\n\u003cbr\u003eGuard, has largely been forgotten. Instead of Lee Kuan Yew, the\n\u003cbr\u003eleader, comes Lee Kuan Yew, the lover; instead of S.\n\u003cbr\u003eRajaratnam, the diplomat, comes S. Rajaratnam, the fiction\n\u003cbr\u003ewriter. Many of these stories are relatively unknown to the public,\n\u003cbr\u003eand yet they are gems in history that capture a softer, more\n\u003cbr\u003eintimate side of Singapore’s first-generation leaders. It is a timely\n\u003cbr\u003eread as the nation they helped build commemorates its 60th year\n\u003cbr\u003eof independence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Nutgraf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52165736005943,"sku":"EB_HI0900_E03-02_KL","price":109.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9789811777073-1_42086193-1790-4d31-9a28-1f04d58b6ce6.jpg?v=1793711070","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9789811777073","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}