Lee Kuan Yew's own account of how Singapore went from a poor port with no resources to one of the richest countries in the world, inside a single lifetime. Clean government, heavy spending on schools and people, and a willingness to make decisions that stayed unpopular for years before they worked.
It is his side of the story and he is not shy about it, so read it knowing that. As a record of how one person actually built a country, and what it cost, there is not much else like it.