There Is Nothing for You Here
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"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…
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I was fascinated by Fiona Hill as she was called to give her testimony at the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump.
Fired by the former president because she would not go along with his corruption, she gives a vivid account of her own background growing up in poverty in the United Kingdom, eventually studying in Moscow, then at Harvard, and being hired by the White House as an expert on Russia.
Her prophetic analysis of the similarities between the Russian, British, and American societies is like nothing you have ever read.
This memoir by a brave woman who stood up to both Presidents Trump and Putin is a revealing look at the inner workings of the Trump administration’s dysfunctional foreign policy. Fiona Hill bears an uncanny resemblance to my heroine, Delphine Roget. Born to a poor mining family in the North of England, she worked her way to the top through sheer intellectual brilliance and willpower. When push came to shove, she told the truth to Congress about Trump’s outrageous misuse of presidential power. But the book is much more than that. It is a searching examination of how capitalism has…
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