Journalist Tom Plate presenting MM Lee with the original caricature for the cover of Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew, done by illustrator P.K. Cheng, at the book launch in Shangri-La Hotel yesterday. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
AMERICAN journalist Tom Plate, a fan of Singapore and the way the country works, has written a book that gives a personal, mildly irreverent, insight into Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and his thinking.
The book, Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew, was launched at the Shangri-La Hotel yesterday, with Mr Lee and some 40 guests present.
Mr Lee, who spoke briefly off the cuff, hoped the 216-page book makes for interesting reading.
'I don't agree with all of it, but that is to be expected - the Western journalist's exaggeration of eccentricity,' he said.
'But on the whole, he got my point of view across,' he added.
Mr Plate, 66, a veteran journalist and former journalism professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he wanted to take a 'fresh, unique approach' that people will remember 50 years from now.
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