The political life of a Maltese patriot

Abstract

If one reads Henry Frendo's latest book, Patrijott Liberali Malti - Bijografija ta' Gorg Borg Olivier expecting to read the life of a national figure now deceased, this is not the book. Quintessentially, this book is not a chronicle of a man's life but an analysis of Giorgio Borg Olivier's political actions within the context of his times. In the introduction to his book, Frendo himself warns the reader that s/he should not expect an account of Borg Olivier's private life, which is typical in traditional biography prose. On the contrary, this book is primarily a study of the man within the context of Malta's contemporary history, with special emphasis on how he marked these events and how the gravitas of these events marked this man's political career: