A number of books have been published, in English and Maltese, about Eddie Fenech Adami, which are a very useful record of a statesman and politician of our times.

Of all these publications the recent one, edited very professionally by historian Sergio Grech entitled Eddie Fenech Adami, Ġabra ta’ Kitbiet, is probably the most accurate in the way it describes how the man was transformed from a  village lawyer in Birkirkara to a man of providence.

What makes Mr Grech’s work valuable is that the many writers from all walks of life see Eddie as he is, with some even telling us when they disagreed with him as Prime Minister. I think the best contribution is the one by Giovanni Bonello who for years sat on the same bench between Eddie Fenech Adami and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici. Like the late Giulio Andreotti he can say “Visti da vicino”.

The book portrays Eddie Fenech Adami as an able politician and visionary who brought this tiny island into the family of European nations, where it found its rightful place.

There are still some areas of the Fenech Adami era which need to be studied, such as his relations with the Vatican and the local Church, the original idea to build a new hospital in 1990 twinned to San Raffaele and relations with Italy and Libya.

This book is an important one for us all, including future historians.

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