Turning Points.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Derrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographies.

Politicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston : Ian Randle Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

In a political career that spanned decades, Derrick Smith has earned respect and acclaim in his island home Jamaica as an upstanding politician and a caring member of Parliament. Emerging from a lower-middle-class milieu to the heights of political office, Smith tells the story of his personal and professional life in this candid memoir.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

1. Beginnings

2. Olive Smith

3. Big School

4. Hurricane Charlie

5. St Michael's Primary

6. 1955

7. Una Mae Smith

8. Calabar

9. Young Plank

10. 48 Westminster Road

11. The Minster Boys

12. Independence

13. Fate at Work

14. Papa

15. Crashing

16. Drinking and Smoking

17. Wedding Bells

18. Turning Points

19. Goodyear

20. Jaycees

21. 1976 and McKenna's Gold

22. Heroes

23. Taking the Fight to the Enemy

24. A Rocky Start

25. Professional Heights

26. The Call

27. A Whole Lotta Smiths

28. A Rude Awakening

29. The Two Dr Fords

30. In Opposition

31. The Smith Boys

32. Trapped

33. Karleen

34. National Democratic Movement

35. Discoveries

36. No Hard Feelings

37. Complications

38. Humiliation

39. Dudus

40. The Next Generation

41. Challenging Leadership

42. 7 Surgeries

43. Succession

44. On Reflection

A Special Word of Thanks.

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Other Format:

Print version: Smith, Derrick Turning Points

ISBN:

9789768286390

9768286393

OCLC:

1381712798