Goh Keng Swee : A Portrait

Dr. Goh Keng Swee is a founding member of Singapore's ruling political party, and one of the most influential figures in the country's continued development and economic success.Based on thorough and extensive research - including interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues - this superb volume presents readers with an insightful and thoroughly engaging account of Goh's life, from his humble beginnings in Melaka, his days at Raffles College in Singapore and the London School of Economics where he found his taste for politics, to his influential and far-reaching career in the Singaporean Government and his eventual retirement in 1984.This superb volume also includes never-before-seen photographs, a detailed family tree, extensive endnotes, and a comprehensive bibliography.