Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew took a crowded, dirty, poor port town, and turned it into one of the world's great cities. How was he able to lead such an incredible transformation of Singapore?

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Sources:

No Man Is An Island: A Portrait of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew by James Minchin (a.co/d/gA3Z7nD)

Lee Kuan Yew: The Grandmaster's Insights on China, United States, and the World by Graham Allison, Michael McConnohie, et al. (a.co/d/ddJ7aHg)

From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew (a.co/d/a57k4bW)

Singapore: A Modern History by Michael D Barr (a.co/d/16Wjjqg)

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Writing, research, and production by Ben Wilson.

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