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Author Mesenas, Clement, 1946-

Title Dissident voices : personalities in Singapore political history / Clement Mesenas
Published Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Ong Eng Guan; Lim Hock Siew; Francis Seow; Catherine Lim; Chia Thye Poh; David Marshall; Said Zahari; Tan Wah Piow; Lim Chin Siong; Vincent Cheng; References; About the Author
Summary They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, lonely lives in self-imposed exile. But they never broke. Some will say the unflinching attitude of these dissidents against what they perceived as coercive authority has been an exercise in futility. Yet other say the course of Singapore's history might have been altered if their will had prevailed. Their stories need to be told. The first of it's kind, this book will inform and educate. Rather than to glorify their tough stance, these memoirs are a record of human
Notes Print version record
Subject Dissenters -- Singapore -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Dissenters
Politics and government
SUBJECT Singapore -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007832
Singapore -- History -- 1965-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001011420
Subject Singapore
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789814516860
9814516864