In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor…
A sixth collection of speeches by the President of the Republic of the Philippines." Includes bibliographical references and index. ASEAN Recourses Centre copy signed by author."
As part of its trade policy, Singapore has recently embarked on what can broadly be termed "new regionalism". This is characterized by its new-found desire to enter free trade agreements (FTAs) with the economic powerhouses (Japan and the United States in particular) as well as with a number of other countries beyond the Southeast Asian region.
Now that he is a private citizen, I still cover him from time to time because his voice and opinions still carry a strong weight as a senior statesman. My coverage of him during the war in Mindanao in the 1970s and 1980s was full of adventure and danger. At times I found myself riding planes and helicopters over rebel territories. In some instances, I clambered up armored vehicles and trudged t…
This book is about the crisis Europe. The author has stated the dilemma of Europe with brilliant clarity, precision, and urgency, and because he has had the further audacity to point the way to a solution.
More than two and one-half years after the signing of the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government of Indonesia and the free Aceh movement, peace still holds in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
As I look forward to many more years of serving our country and people in a private capacity, I take comfort in the realization that the goal of sustainable development and poverty elimination lies within reach of each and every Filipino. Rich and poor, plain citizens and public servants, young and old, have the capacity to move our country forward in spite of short-term inadequacies and outsid…
Dr. (HC) Martha Tilaar adalah sebuah nama yang sudah sangat terkenal di tanah air. Nama ini pada mulanya identik dengan brand kosmetik terkenal, Sari Ayu, yang kemudian berkembang menjadi beragam produk yang tak kurang terkenalnya. la memimpin pabrik dengan 3000 pekerja di dalamnya. Perjalanan panjang Martha dalam meraih semua itu pun dimulai sejak kecil. Karena ia adalah anak yang sakit-sakita…
This book offers a historian's reflection on the past and the future of the American experiment. The word 'experiment' is used advisedly. The men who established the United States of America believed that they were trying something new under the sun. The idea that a democratic republic might endure ran against all the teachings of history. The vindication of this idea, said Washington in his fi…
Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya -a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people- demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of one-and-a-half million to hold them in c…