BOOK REVIEW | Last week, Malaysiakini readers have had the privilege to read seven excerpts from the book ‘Lim Kit Siang: Malaysian First, Volume One: None But the Bold’.

Author Kee Thuan Chye has laboriously put together what were the early years of Lim’s long political career, his ups and downs in the world of domestic politics and the administration of this country.

Much has been put into the book about Lim’s work, yet the Malaysian malaise surfaces because there has been so little in the form of results to show for his thoughtfulness, ideas and policies. Not because of...