Sukarno: The Voice of a Revolution

He could hold a hundred thousand people silent with a whisper, then roar until the square shook. Sukarno — engineer, prisoner, exile, proclaimer — became the voice through which a scattered archipelago first heard itself as one nation. This biography follows the triumphs and the shadows: the proclamation of 1945, the dazzling Bandung Conference, and the turbulence that ended his rule, telling the story of the most charismatic leader Southeast Asia ever produced.