The preface to this book started with Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) clearly stating that ” I wrote this book for a younger generation of Singaporeans who took stability, growth, prosperity for granted. I wanted them to know how difficult it was for a small country of 640sq. km with no natural resources to survive in the midst of larger, newly independent nations all pursuing nationalistic policies”

The Foreward to the book was written by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. In the foreward, Dr. Kissinger explained the new global phenomenon with the emergence of scores of new states. The central role being played by new technology “was accompanied by an implicit assumption that politics, and even cultures will become homogenized”. The long established nations of the West have fallen prey to the temptation of ignoring history and judging every new state by the criteria of their own civilization”  The writer posited that “the institutions of the West did not spring full-blown from the brow of contemporaries but evolved over centuries which shaped frontiers and defined legitimacy, constitutional provisions and basic values”. The writer further stated that “the West developed gradually…”

It is my great pleasure to share on my website the history of a great leader Lee Kuan Yew who was the founding Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959-1990 and under his leadership Singapore was transformed from a third world country into a first world nation. This journey of transformation has been captured in his book “FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST The Singapore Story: 1965-2000”.
This book was published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. in 2000.   The foreword to the book was written by no less a personality Dr. Henry Kissinger one-time Secretary of State of the United States of America.

The Book ” From Third World to First” The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 Lee Kuan Yew (Contents)