Reluctant Politician

Author : Tawfik Tun Dr Ismail
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814695394
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting into Politics written by Tawfik Tun Dr Ismail and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unfinished autobiography of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, the medical doctor who held key government positions in the first two decades of Malaysian nation building, and who was an important early player within UMNO, the country's dominant political party. Drifting into Politics was found among the private papers that were handed over to the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in 2005 by Tun Dr Ismail's eldest son, Mohd Tawfik.The family has asked for it to be published in 2015, this year being the 100th anniversary of Tun Dr Ismail's birth. This is an apt time indeed to make his reflections on his own life available to the world. This is also the third book to come out of the Tun Dr Ismail papers which are kept at ISEAS Library.The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time, the biography written by Ooi Kee Beng and published in 2006 is ISEAS's all-time bestseller, and it brought Tun Dr Ismail back with great impact into Malaysian political analysis and discourse. It has been translated into Malay and Chinese. The second book - Malaya's First Year in the United Nations - has also been welcomed by scholars of Malaysia's foreign affairs and diplomacy. This present volume continues Malaysia's rediscovery of Tun Dr Ismail.

Author : Kee Beng Ooi
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304258
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Politician written by Kee Beng Ooi and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman. Includes facts about Malaysian and Singaporean history, as well as insights into the processes of decolonization and nation building.

Author : Chick Lung
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456724568
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Politician written by Chick Lung and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with the kidnapping of Tony Denton's sixteen year old niece at a car wash and his involvement with the police as they try to locate her. Things start going wrong when police officers are pulled from the kidnapping case to work as decoys on a sting in the red light district, arresting prostitutes and their "johns". Tony losses it as he rants and raves against management of the police force in his hometown. When people tell Tony to stop griping and do something about it he reluctantly runs for sheriff, and to his surprise he wins the office. His only promise on the campaign trail had been that he would not allow any of his officers to be involved in arresting prostitutes or their "johns's", nor would he allow an officer to arrest anyone using drugs, which causes an uproar within the relgious community. Tony is so successful at taking his police officers away from these two areas and putting them to work solving the brutual murders and rapes that take place in his town that within the first two years the number of all major crimes in the town take a major nose dive. Even the papers in larger cities take notice and begin writing accounts of the small town sheriff that has a new method of fighting crimes. Soon Tony is being asked to run for higher office and this starts the remarkable story of the reluctant politician who changes the system, but as is always the case with the old saying, "be careful what you wish for, it might come true", in Tony's case he pulls the nation down a slippery slope faster and faster to destruction.

Author : Jack R Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947726758
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant President (Large Print) written by Jack R Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if in the dark, small hours of a morning you discovered Secret Service agents at your front door telling you that you were now the President of the United States? That's the way it happened to Porter Randall, a Texas Panhandle surgeon turned novelist who had been persuaded by friends to run for Congress for just a couple of terms. Could a non-politician without rampant ambition or a lust for power fulfill this office? What would happen to the country? Would he, could he make a real difference in the world of Washington, D.C. politics and the world? Porter Randall becomes The Reluctant President and finds out.

Author : Barbara F. Olschner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047471
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Republican written by Barbara F. Olschner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Olschner believes in her party’s founding principles: lower taxes, less regulation, limited government, and individual accountability. But she also believes in governing through compromise, in respectfully listening to opponents’ viewpoints, and in the possibility that a Republican can be fiscally but not socially conservative. In hindsight, it isn’t surprising that when she ran for Congress at the height of the Tea Party’s influence she was branded an elitist and a RINO (Republican in Name Only)—and finished dead last. The Reluctant Republican traces her campaign and her realization that the current leadership of her party demands strict adherence to its ideology. Not only are different viewpoints not tolerated, but those who espouse them are vilified for their disloyalty.

Author : Jack R. Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954212039
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant President written by Jack R. Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if in the dark, small hours of a morning you discovered Secret Service agents at your front door telling you that you were now the President of the United States? That¿s the way it happened to Porter Randall, a Texas Panhandle surgeon turned novelist who had been persuaded by friends to run for Congress for just a couple of terms. Could a non-politician without rampant ambition or a lust for power fulfill this office? What would happen to the country? Would he; could he make a real difference in the world as we know it? Porter becomes The Reluctant President and finds out.

Author : Omoluyi Ogbeide
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Politician written by Omoluyi Ogbeide and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Kendrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718469
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Douglass and Lincoln written by Stephen Kendrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Abraham Lincoln deeply opposed the institution of slavery, he saw the Civil War at its onset as being Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln had only three meetings, but their exchanges profoundly influenced the course of slavery and the outcome of the Civil War.primarily about preserving the Union. Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave, by contrast saw the War's mission to be the total and permanent abolition of slavery. And yet, these giants of the nineteenth century, despite their different outlooks, found common ground, in large part through their three historic meetings. In elegant prose and with unusual insights, Paul and Stephen Kendrick chronicle the parallel lives of Douglass and Lincoln as a means of presenting a fresh, unique picture of two men who, in their differences, eventually challenged each other to greatness and altered the course of the nation.

Author : Jay Hammond
Publisher : Epicenter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945397434
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Alaska's Bush Rat Governor written by Jay Hammond and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former governor of Alaska recounts his childhood, education, war experiences, and political career

Author : Walter Gore Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Politician: Derick Heathcoat Amory written by Walter Gore Allen and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: