Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story (Volume 1)

By Peh Shing Huei. World Scientific Publishing Company, October 2018. Available on Amazon. Goh Chok Tong MA ’67 was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. Except for an imposing height most unusual in this part of the world, he was an ordinary man. Tall Order tells the extraordinary story of his life and career over half a century, revealing how Singapore’s second Prime Minister rose through a combination of strength, wit and a political nous which many, including himself, did not know he had. this authorised biography reveals the private deliberations and negotiations between Goh and Lee before the maiden leadership transfer of independent Singapore. Tall Order is the first biography of Goh.