“Opportunity for high office is a matter of fate.” -Tseng Kuo Fan advising Li Hung Chang. (Li Hung Chang and China’s Early Modernisation Page 21).…
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Tag: Political Leader Biographies
Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership
This 2022 biography of Xi Jin Ping is the latest English biography of him. It serves as a huge lacuna in the market. Especially, when…
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The Handover of Hong Kong
Hong Kong was surrendered to the British for perpetuity by the Ching dynasty when Britain won the First Opium war. Kowloon was surrendered for perpetuity…
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Is Jinnah a great lawyer? (Part 2)
Jinnah’s skill as a politician has always been scrutinized by his biographers. He is after all The Sole Spokesman for Pakistan. (Ayesha Jalal). He is…
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Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story
This 2019 book, the first of a two-volume authorized biography, is a political biography of Singapore’s second Prime minister. The hybrid nature of the format…
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Biography of Lee Kuan Yew
This is the best multi volume biography on Lee Kuan Yew. It was written by his press secretary, a Britisher. In the good old days,…
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By William Hague
William Hague was a TORY party leader. His rise was meteoric after he impressed Margaret Thatcher with a fiery speech, age only 16 at a…
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Gripping story – Commander in Chief: FDR’s Battle with Churchill
This is the 2nd volume of a trilogy on the track record of FDR as a war leader during WWII focusing on one single year…
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Light reading – Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
This is not an easy book to read. The flow is rather disjointed. One can’t get to grip with the stories on the 6 explorers…
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