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David Marshall was part of the nationalist political struggle after WWII, the first elected chief minister during the most turbulent and difficult political days of the 1950s. His professional success as a lawyer and his colourful personality and life would have beckoned many a writer to tell his tale, but his significance is more solidly based, as this book will show. Inevitably, a political biography becomes a study of a man as a prism of his times. Even though Marshall was a member of a minority community in Singapore, his childhood recalls a familiar immigrant family history; his struggle for a career in a colonial society, his survival through the war, and his failures all reflect the historical, social and political context and enable one to understand the larger society from which he came.

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Business, A Sensation of Independence, This is the story of Singapore's first elected chief minister and his 14 months in office, related in the context of his life and times. In an objective, but sympathetic style, the author describes David Marshall's origins, development, professional career and political services, set against the background of Singapore's own development, and of it's turbulent political awakening and maturing in the 1950s and 1960s. Politically, Marshall was only a shooting star, and it was left to others to provide the firm and consistent leadership which left Singapore needing to emerge as a flourishing self-supporting island state. This, however, does not detract from the crucial role Marshall played during his short tenure of office in those turbulent years, making an important contribution to the evolution of independent Singapore. eBook.