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Sto caricando le informazioni... There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (2021)di Fiona Hill
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I thought this book would dig into the details of her time at the White House and her testimony at the Ukrainian impeachment trial. It only touched upon it but did give some examples and her opinion of her interactions w the Trump administration. Also, her insistent comparisons of the UK, US, and Russia seemed stretched at times. Never read much about how she thought the three were different. Could have been a much better book though kudos to her ideas on how to push education in the US. 2.25 stars. parts of this were really interesting - the deep down historical/political/international stuff. her personal story was important in order to highlight what she was talking about but i sometimes found myself zoning out. it is a nice discussion on class that i think sometimes gets lost in the bigger discussions about race and gender. An interesting if overlong book, the main worth of which is probably as a historical document attesting to some of the myriad failings of the Trump administration and how clearly it was angling to become the Trump régime. There was a lot for me to empathise with in the early parts of There Is Nothing for You Here, in which Fiona Hill recounts her childhood in a working-class family in an impoverished part of northeastern England, and how a combination of hard work, timing, and some lucky breaks got her the educational opportunities she needed to make a different life for herself—while she’s roughly a generation older than me, there are similarities in our life stories. Hill writes in a lucid and straightforward manner—although she clearly has more experience writing policy documents than compelling prose—and I respect her decision to eschew scandalmongering or catastrophising, even while she’s clear about just how bad the political, social, economic and environmental effects of worsening inequality will be. However, while Hill is upfront about the role that race, class, and gender play in shaping and limiting people’s opportunities, her proposals for how these seem to lie very much in the “benevolent capitalism” mode. (She is a Brookings Institution fellow for a reason, I suppose.) I about choked when, right near the end of the book, Hill not only gave credit to the Trump administration for what were clearly holdover economic effects from the Obama administration, but also spoke with approval of J.D. Vance—a man about whom the most charitable thing I can say is “thundering gobshite.” There’s little here that’s new, either in terms of proposals for change or information about either the Trump administration, the U.K. or Putin’s Russia, unless you’re really new to any works on them. Readable, but not essential. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
MenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Politics.
Women's Studies.
Nonfiction.
HTML: "This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."??Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia??and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces around her. Her father urged her to get out of their blighted corner of northern England: "There is nothing for you here, pet," he said. The coal-miner's daughter managed to go further than he ever could have dreamed. She studied in Moscow and at Harvard, became an American citizen, and served three U.S. Presidents. But in the heartlands of both Russia and the United States, she saw troubling reflections of her hometown and similar populist impulses. By the time she offered her brave testimony in the first impeachment inquiry of President Trump, Hill knew that the desperation of forgotten people was driving American politics over the brink??and that we were running out of time to save ourselves from Russia's fate. In this powerful, deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and shows why expanding opportunity is the only long-term hope for our democracy. "Of every book written by anybody associated with the Trump administration, in any way, [this] is absolutely the one to read."??Rachel Maddow A New York Times Bestseller | A Washington Post Bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year | A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I felt enthused during the entire reading of this book and am very happy - and grateful - that she is in our world. ( )