Drifting into politics The Unfinished Memoirs of Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman

• Main Author: Ismail Tun 1915-1973
• Other Authors: Tawfik Tun Dr Ismail (Editor), Ooi Kee Beng (Editor)
• Format: Thesis Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ISEAS Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Vice prime ministers > Biography > Malaysia
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xxviii, 89 pages illustrations 21 cm
• ISBN: 9789814695305

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, the 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.