Grandson of Essie. The Oswald Harding Story 12+

🔖 Oswald (Ossie) Harding OJ, CD, QC, Phd.is well known to Jamaicans as a memberof the Jamaica Labour Party, formerMinister of Justice and Attorney General, andformer president of the Senate. What may beless well known is that he was president for twonon-consecutive tenures, and that his firstperiod as a senator (1977–2002) was the longestcontinuous tenure in the body’s history.Many readers will be aware that Harding is apatron of the arts and dedicated art collector.Fewer may know that on his retirement frompolitics he decided to study philosophy, and thathe was awarded a doctorate (Phd) in that subjectfrom the University of the West Indies, Monacampus; or that, above all else, he is a devotedhusband and father, son and grandson – a familyman.As Henry Lowe notes in his foreword, it isfrom this book that “the real Ossie Harding”emerges; and its pages are “loaded with interestingand informative anecdotes” which identify itsauthor as “a rich resource of culture and history”.Ossie Harding, in short, is a fascinating person,as his disarmingly honest, humorous, and veryreadable autobiography demonstrates.