Lee Kuan Yew

Founding Father of Singapore · First Prime Minister of Singapore · 1923–2015

The Cambridge-educated lawyer who transformed a tiny island with no natural resources into one of the world's richest nations.

Explore the life of Lee Kuan Yew — five chapters

1. The Occupation — How three and a half years destroyed a young man's assumptions
2. Winning Power, and Using It — A united front with the left, and Operation Coldstore
3. Expelled — 9 August 1965, and a country nobody wanted
4. Housing, Language and Control — Building a nation and managing its people
5. Stepping Back, and the Question He Left — A model, and whether it can be copied

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