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THE POLITICAL LEGACY OF AUNG SAN: Revised Edition. Edited by Josef Silverstein. Ithaca (New York): Cornell University (Southeast Asia Program). (1972), 1993. viii, 169 pp. US$14.00, paper. ISBN 0-87727-128-3.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING BOOK revised and edited by Joseph Silverstein, professor emeritus of Rutgers University, who is the most renowned scholar and authority on Burmese politics. The Political Legacy of Aung San was first published in 1972. This revised edition represents the continued scholarly legacy of Silverstein whose innumerable articles and books on Burma have been invaluable to serious students and researchers on the nature and functions of the Burmese political system and its complex history. The new revision of the political background and speeches of General Aung San, the father of the 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (who has been put under house arrest since 1989 by the present military regime), is...