The Life and Times of Gerald De Cruz
A Singaporean of Many Worlds

Asad-ul Iqbal Latif (Author)

9789814620680

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2015

224 pages
21 x 14.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.315 kg

Gerald de Cruz's life overlapped many of the spheres of Singapore's history after World War II. As a Eurasian, a nationalist, a communist and then a democratic socialist, as a journalist and a writer, he represents the insurgent energies of a truculent time when a nascent nation was seeking the basis of statehood. His commitment to progressive ideas and movements reveals a man of integrity in search of himself in a better world. This book seeks to portray his place in time, particularly for younger Singaporeans who did not live in an era that has inaugurated the history of independent Singapore.