Suu Kyi addresses supporters outside her gate on the day of her release in November The hopes of a nation — and the world — now rest upon a slight, seemingly indomitable figure with a fresh flower in her hair.
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In August , Suu Kyi meets President Thein Sein for the first time, marking the start of her pragmatic engagement with a government of ex-soldiers. Hillary Clinton arrives in Myanmar in November , the first visit by a U. The two women hug during a press conference at Suu Kyi's home. President Thein Sein lifts censorship, frees hundreds of political prisoners and launches a series of reforms. Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and foreign minister, met Suu Kyi in Yangon in Suu Kyi decides to contest by-elections in April , despite fears that her participation will legitimize a political system skewed in the military's favor.
Huge crowds greet her nationwide campaign. The constitution grants the military a quarter of parliamentary seats, plus control over key ministries that oversee the army and police. Kevin Rudd says Suu Kyi hoped to change this rigged system from within. Thousands of homes are burned down. This Rakhine man with homemade weapons walks near houses set alight during the fighting reut.
For years, the Rohingya have endured apartheid-like conditions in western Myanmar, with limited access to health, education and other basic services. By , the United Nations estimates about , Rohingya are sheltering in neighboring Bangladesh, driven there by violence and poverty in Myanmar. On June 13, with parts of the Rakhine state capital Sittwe still smoldering, Suu Kyi departs on a five-nation tour of Europe. In London, she meets David Cameron, then Britain's prime minister. The Rohingya bear the brunt of a second, deadlier bout of violence in Rakhine State in October, but Suu Kyi refuses to speak up for them.
Her halo also slips at a copper mine in northern Myanmar, where she is confronted by weeping and angry protesters. An extremist Buddhist monk called Wirathu fans anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide. Buddhist mobs kill dozens of Muslims in Meiktila, in central Myanmar, in March More riots, killings and arson attacks follow in nearby towns.
Suu Kyi, a devout Buddhist, is again criticized for not publicly defending Muslims. She has forgotten it or lost it. Her silence on the plight of the Rohingya and other minorities allows her to preserve her political popularity with the Buddhist majority. This triggers a military-led campaign of murder, rape and arson that drives more than , Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. The refugees flee on foot and by rickety boats.
Some, like this Rohingya baby cradled by his distraught mother, die after their boats capsize - see photo reut.
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Min Aung Hlaing is the diminutive commander-in-chief of Myanmar's military and the public face of the brutal crackdown against the Rohingya, who he calls "Bengalis. Clinton also traveled to the United Kingdom to promote the book. In part, the events in the United Kingdom were considered a great success, with tickets being sold out in less than an hour in some places.
In May she took her book tour to New Zealand and Australia. Clinton partook in a series of engagements titled Hillary Clinton: At many of her appearances, Clinton was met with enthusiastic audiences filling multi-thousand-seat venues. In addition to Hillary Clinton Live events, Clinton also held book signings at locations across the United States as part of her book tour.
Tickets for particular signings sold out very soon after going on sale. For instance, tickets to Clinton's signing at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena sold out within ninety minutes. The president of Vroman's Bookstore reported that it was the fastest that the store had ever sold out for an event. In the United States, some of the book tour's stops were located relatively near Chappaqua, New York, where Clinton maintains her personal residence. However, she also held book signings at faraway places like California or Colorado.
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It is stunning to hear what Clinton has been able to piece together on this topic. I cannot wait for more of the formal inquiry findings, at least until they are silenced. Might this be what we all need to begin impeachment hearings? Holding their noses, the vast majority of Americans made a choice, though I do wonder if they would have held the same opinion had all the information been readily available.
What I enjoyed most about the book was that it was not a sob story or a recitation of all the bad things done to Clinton, but an exploration of the entire election cycle, from primary fights with Bernie, through to the bitter defeat at the polls. Clinton came knocking on the glass ceiling twice the bridesmaid, never the bride and it would not shatter, though this is not her sole concern.
The narrative is full of poignant and well-grounded thoughts about the America that chose Trump and where that will lead until , when a course correction may be in order. Clinton also provides some stunning commentary from what she has seen of POTUS and his choices, using filters discussed throughout the book. This is a telling book that takes the reader through many of the areas of greatest strain in the country, which have surely been exacerbated by the election of Donald Trump.
Bigotry, racism, misogyny, and elitism provide the foundation for a set of beliefs owned by the man occupying the Oval Office. While there have surely been others who have dabbled in these areas of divisiveness, it is more than the leader, the person elected to represent the populace, refuses to look outside his narrow view and govern with the best interests of all in mind.
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Then again, any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one! Kudos, Madam Clinton, for such insightful thoughts for all to share. I know some will scream fakenews at every page turn, but we cannot expect the ignorant to be able to hold meaningful and well-rounded discussions without rushing back under their rocks. I await November 3, to see how the public will react, though I am close to positive we need only read Twitter feeds the moment the impeachment vote is tallied in the Senate.
An ever-growing collection of others appears at: View all 61 comments. I've preordered Hillary Clinton's book and am giving it 5 stars in advance to help offset the actions of her haters, who also haven't read her book but are giving it 1 star apiece in an attempt to hold down her sales and her side of the story. Almost years ago another group of authoritarian "Christian" men and their wives stood against the suffragettes, and they were wrong too.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but misogyny won the election. Darkness Why does this have likes? Nov 14, Bethia misogyny wrote many of the reviews here on Goodreads too. A lot of hateful misinformed Americans Goodreads! Dec 16, Nov 04, Esil rated it really liked it Shelves: When I finish a book, I usually write a review almost instantly and I do it quickly trying to go from the gut. For some reason, I've been dawdling over my review of What Happened. I listened to the audio as I walked to and from work over the last several weeks.
In parallel, being the news junky that I am, I have watched the ongoing craziness south of the border. This is not a perfect book and Hillary Clinton is not perfect, but Jeez Louise, really? My favourite parts of the book are those where s When I finish a book, I usually write a review almost instantly and I do it quickly trying to go from the gut. My favourite parts of the book are those where she speaks about who she is -- her family, her personality, her education and early career, Bill and Chelsea, and her core values.
She comes across as polished, careful and reserved, but also as caring and compassionate. If this is who she is, surely these are all qualities that would have made her an excellent president. Not to mention her intelligence, deep understanding and commitment to so many issues. And I love her concluding call for "deep empathy" -- the need for people to try to understand each other and try to work together across their differences -- a concept that resonates acutely with me. The middle felt a bit saggy, which explains my 4 stars.
There was a bit too much rehashing and discussion about issues that felt an awful lot like she was still on the campaign trail. But, again, what a missed opportunity for Americans and the world. And what an amazing role model she would have been for our daughters Clinton reads the audio herself. It's well worth listening to her tell her story in her own voice.
View all 33 comments. Aug 11, Diane rated it really liked it Shelves: In the week or so it took me to read this book, I noticed that the reaction from my friends was almost universally the same. While discussing our latest books, the exchange would go something like this: I don't think I could handle that. It's just too upsetting. She is so smart and thoughtful, and she has great insights into the presidential election and the state of our country. In the last year, I have read countless articles and several books trying to understand how the most qualified person to ever run for U.
But if I really want to try and understand what happened during the election, I need to go to the source: I need to hear what Hillary says. She suffered through it more than anyone else, and her story is worthwhile. You're turning me around on this. And the book isn't all election doom and gloom. Hillary also shares some uplifting stories from her life. She lets down her guard and is more open about her feelings.
She's got a dry sense of humor that made me chuckle. She wrote this great section on feminism and sexism, and she had this line which I'll paraphrase: Hillary has probably been mansplained to more than any woman in modern times! She's put up with so much sexism and bullshit in her career I'm amazed she isn't totally bitter and cynical. But she still has hope, and includes suggestions for how we can climb out of this mess. Overall, I would highly recommend the book. I'll check it out. I hope you get to read something lighter after this. Happy reading to you, too! Nov 08, Jaidee rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Americans who want to live in a peaceful and just society.
I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing in the land to the south of us.
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A tyrannical man was not only nominated but in the end, he won. How could this be? What does this mean for my American friends and my native land of Canada? Hilary Clinton with me to Europe in order to find out her perspective. I was not expe 4. I was not expecting much as I did not think much of her but through reading this book my opinion for her has changed as well as feeling a lot of empathy for her difficult experience and the affection I feel for her policies, viewpoints and ways of being in the world.
Clinton is a very talented writer that guides the reader from beginning to end, her experience of the past presidential election. She talks about minutiae such as her wardrobe choices and the food they eat on the road to explanations of very complicated events that make sense and are surprisingly well-balanced, gracious and fair!! Clinton comes across as extremely intelligent, hardworking, collaborative, caring but also a bit smug, perhaps arrogant. I imagine some of this is for self-preservation. Imagine having many millions of people hating you, vilifying you at times even harassing and persecuting you.
You need a thick skin and a good sense of self and values in order to survive that. I appreciate her policies around healthcare, women and children, workers, people of color and LGBT rights. She is a wise feminist that loves men but also understands the limitations and constraints of WASP heterosexist patriarchal systems. She does not vilify these groups but wants to understand their frustrations with the many social changes that they too are experiencing. I am very proud of her for that.
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She also believes in fiscal responsibility and is a stickler for policy and policy change. I think a blind spot for her is her relative privilege and that she sometimes minimizes how immensely wealthy she and her family are and how most people do have to struggle a bit more in the day to day than she does.
This is not a criticism, simply an observation. I think Hilary was strong enough to admit her errors in misreading particular segments of society but most of all for underestimating the Donald's appeal to many segments of disgruntled American society. Don't get me started on the email scandal which was a complete witch hunt!
I am very proud that she has run for president and although I am not certain that she would have been one of the greats she certainly would have tried her best and kept her love of America front and foremost in her decision making. I wanna give you a great big Hug!! View all 32 comments. Feb 20, Whitney Atkinson rated it really liked it Shelves: It ripped open old wounds from January and fleshed out Hillary's side to the election that I was previously blind to. I've tried to read political books before and gotten lost in all of the policy discussion, but every page of this made sense because I read every article she referenced and I lived through and clicked away from all the discussion surrounding this electio 4.
I've tried to read political books before and gotten lost in all of the policy discussion, but every page of this made sense because I read every article she referenced and I lived through and clicked away from all the discussion surrounding this election. It was like a punch in the gut to relive it, but it was also comforting and empowering to know Hillary's stance on why the election panned out as it did and how to move on from it.
I loved that there were sections dedicated to feminism, the emails, russia, and election night. This was sectioned off so well, and the balance between personal stories and others' research and talk about policy kept me engaged. I listened to this on audio and there were several impactful moments because Hillary is its narrator, but I'm also finding myself grappling to remember details because I'm sure I would have read this much closer had I picked it up physically, which is why I removed.
Nevertheless, I'm so glad this won the Goodreads award because it deserves it. What a remarkable woman. However, I started reading this memoir of a woman who could have become the most powerful person in the world, and suddenly I just could not continue reading. Honestly, I had enough of the bickering, mudslinging, power play and mad politics. The press will not allow us to get away from it, and then it continues in memoirs like this.
Not Hillary's writing's fault. She is a remarkably good writer, unless I missed the name of the gh What a remarkable woman. She is a remarkably good writer, unless I missed the name of the ghost writer somewhere. To do what she did, is almost beyond totally inhumane as far as energy, guts and determination is concerned. She did not have to spell it out in the book as she so eloquently did. Everyone who has been there knows exactly what she's talking about and can appreciate her even more for going that route. It is an ungrateful life, with enemies in every hook, cranny and unthinkable outpost of the universe.
The choice requires unimaginable strength of character. The memoir is about the good bad and exciting. There were just too much self-slapping-on-the-back, or self-promotion in it. An almost desperate effort to be loved and heard, as though the press did not grant her enough opportunities already. She was the chosen winner after all. Yet, the complete Hillary, according to her, never surfaced and the world need to know who she really is.
Instead of trying to explain my own feelings around the book, I would rather paste a word or two by theguardian.
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton review — entertainingly mean but essentially wrong-headed The announcement of an autopsy by Hillary Clinton of the election raised a distressing possibility: After 25 years in the public eye, she simply could not leave the political arena, and her campaign memoir would play prelude to the next phase, no matter how badly US politics needed new blood.
Those books tried to sell a wise and relatable candidate to the public, while playing down controversies. Her new book is more gossipy, it is meaner, more entertaining and more wrong-headed than anything she or her speechwriters have written before. The memoir aims to be a holistic tale of a complicated woman. I might continue reading when my mood changes.
I just got too bored with the self-aggrandizement. It is expected of a memoir like this, but good heavens, I'm not in the mood for it right now. I also downloaded Big Agenda: I need some air! So, no rating at this point. However, as a memoir it is very well written - if she was the actually author. View all 35 comments. I wasn't sure I could relive the trauma of the election.
But too many people are telling her to be quiet. And you know how I feel about telling women to shut up? It just makes me want them to be louder. If the Democratic party is to continue, it would do well to think very thoughtfully about what went wrong in Luckily, HRC had a front row seat to it, and is probably the best person to tell us. There were a lot of tears, fr I wasn't sure I could relive the trauma of the election. There were a lot of tears, frustration, fear, grief.
But ultimately, this is why you should read this book: Others are focused on keeping the discussion about Russia in the national security realm and away from politics. I get all that. But it's important that we understand what really happened. Because that's the only way we can stop it from happening again " I've seen a lot of critics mostly who haven't read it that this is a book where HRC dodges the blame. Nothing can be further from the truth. These were her decisions, how to act and not act in the face of an election cycle we've never seen before.
But the forces that she was working against seem insurmountable. We're in a cyber war with Russia whether we know it or not. Most Republicans don't know it. We have to tell them. Let's get to work. There's an election on Tuesday, there's an election next year. I'm committed to helping where I can and when I can. Nov 02, Betsy Robinson rated it it was amazing. This book flies in the beginning, slows later on, but despite the vicissitudes, I couldn't put it down. I voted for Bernie Sanders in the presidential primaries, and his book, Our Revolution , was the first I read about the election.
The second related book I read more recently, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump , and it was like an infusion of sanity. What Happened feels like the third in a medicinal trilogy. It is healing to read a funny the specifics of the phone and email stuff are laugh-o This book flies in the beginning, slows later on, but despite the vicissitudes, I couldn't put it down. It is healing to read a funny the specifics of the phone and email stuff are laugh-out-loud funny! I am amazed by the reviews that say she blames everybody else for what happened. It simply isn't true. Yes, she's angry at plenty of people, but she mostly is analytical and takes full responsibility.
For instance, for the bad choice to make speeches to big business. Also, she explains her alliances in order to raise funds—she doesn't say she did the right thing; she says it was necessary in today's environment and will go on being necessary until there is campaign finance law change. And if anybody thinks the current cabinet billionaire cronies with zero experience in their departments, who are dismantling their offices and taking tax-payer-funded private jets for personal pleasure is a swamp-clearing, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.
She reports the many times she was pushed and rather than get as outraged as Bernie Sanders did, she did the female thing: That was a mistake. However, she does use this book to rehash what happened, offer different analyses, examining them all, and in some cases say what she wishes she would have done used a government email or said or not said; perhaps that feels like blaming to some readers. To that, I would ask: Imagine a man responding as she is now doing in this book. Would you call that blaming? Or strong analysis and post mortem in order to learn?
I don't want to debate this review. And perhaps I am doing the girl thing by saying that. I don't like fighting and have a right to choose not to. Clinton says she wore her composure like a suit of armor. I was with her every step of the way. And I marvel that any woman who works would not understand the tightrope walking she describes to get the job done while also not triggering judgments and resentments that no man in similar circumstances faces. The material about her daughter brought me to tears. And you don't have to be a mother to feel this—I'm not. The section on emails, government classification of emails, press coverage of those two issues, and James Comey reads like a Kafka story.
Both hilarious and scream-worthy: I changed my opinion about several things because I never understood this level of detail before!
It takes a book, and it is so much easier to listen to sound bites or half-baked opinions about partial facts. I admit I was wrong on several counts. Her researched chronology about the Russia attack on not only our election but our psyches is a much needed call to arms. My one beef with Sanders's book I bought the hardcover was a lack of an index. The first part was story but the second part was pure education with no way to find it out of context. Clinton has a complete index at the end of her book for me, a Kindle, with a careful explanation that the page numbers apply to the hard copy, but if I click them, I'll go to the correct place in the e-book.
And there was way more personal story, blow-by-blow of the campaign, and a mind-numbing level of detail in the final analysis of why she lost. However there was far less than Sanders on evergreen issues trade, health care, education, etc. So together these books really work as a comprehensive source. Identical to Sanders's book, there are endless references to all the people on Clinton's team and in her life who help and support her efforts. It sometimes got tiresome to read so many names, but it is honest crediting and derives from a generosity of spirit. Both Sanders and Clinton innately function with this spirit and therefore their accounts of their own histories and the histories of their campaigns are infused with gratitude.
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Oh, how I miss this in our current politics. And with all the details of people, policy thinking, and the process of politics, both books offer a valuable and complete historical record that one day may contribute to a bird's-eye-view understanding of what is going on. Yes, there is pain and resentment—for instance, when Bernie Sanders moved from his position on national single-payer health insurance to one that accommodates improving ACA, which is what Clinton advocates. She seems to miss that he also moved the conversation to health care as a right or what I prefer to call "infrastructure," because nobody is a "consumer" when they're deathly ill.
There is no possibility of cost comparison or making sure that doctors are on your plan or that you happen to have had your heart attack in your own state. In my opinion, asking states to come up with policies is like telling drivers they must pay a toll every single time they change roads.
We will all eventually need health care, the same as we need roads and bridges! But I certainly understand her feelings. She is human, somebody disagreed with her, used it against her, and then came over to her way of thinking. I've gotten pissed when that's happened to me. And in a later chapter, she does acknowledge the merits of influencing the overall health care conversation. As with Sanders's book, when I read her deep, personal involvement with people and the way she translated this into creating policy—using facts, research, history, science, whatever was necessary—her ability to expand big enough to hold all this feeling and information put me in a state of awe.
But she feels a similar humility and awe in the face of all the people who share their stories with her. So we have a circle of awe and appreciation. How nice it was to have a real human being who voiced her admiration of all the welders who were first responders. I vividly recall her simple statement that she didn't know how to cut metal pipes and how grateful she was for their expertise and selfless work. She was one of us and she spoke for all of us. And I met that person again in this book. In summary, this is a well-written necessary history, I'm grateful for it, I certainly better understand the woman who wrote it—she elicited in me the "radical empathy" she calls for at the end of the book—and I kind of love her.
Yes, the primary was biased. This is old news that was settled in court in August. If you are just learning about it now and are enraged, I have some thoughts for you. For most of my life I functioned like a feral animal, judging everyone on only 2 criteria: You miss the truth by doing that.
You condemn a complex person or event and reduce it to one thing. I drafted my review of What Happened as I read the book. This is a great exercise in seeing a whole picture: I constantly added thoughts as I read different sections, revising the whole. And I came away with a huge picture and the experience presented.
As I say in the review, I was angry about her flippant denial of the DNC stuff, but there was much more there. Yes, I'm angry that the primary wasn't a fair fight. However according to the August court papers, the DNC had no legal obligation to be unbiased. This is the truth and it sucks. It is not new news! To descend into self-destructive fighting because of that now is just that: Now is the time to deal with NOW. Jul 30, Bud rated it it was amazing. I personally, am interested to see what she has to say. I wish she was the current President and The US would probably be in a much better position.
View all 13 comments. Sep 12, Holly rated it really liked it Shelves: Imagine having enough free time to randomly rate a book they haven't and probably won't bother to read, simply to try and cancel out someone else's rating. Was it a perfect book? It went on a bit too long, and it seemed a little rambling at times. But, overall I found it to be insightful and moving. View all 8 comments. Sep 13, Elizabeth rated it it was amazing. Clinton has an absolute right to write whatever she wants. She has been in politics for decades.
She has done advocacy work. She arguably had the most relevant experience of any presidential candidate in American history. Bernie Sanders lost to her in the primary, published a book, and no one is asking him to go away okay, I am in this review, but in the general political sphere, I haven't seen any vitriolic, hysterical calls for him to sit down and shut up I pre-ordered her book along with millions of other people who actually wanted to hear what she had to say. I don't understand why people think she's not taking responsibility for her loss; she does from the introduction on.
But she also explains why Russian interference, the media, Bernie, and Comey had an impact on the election, which they absolutely did; most pundits agree that she might have won if Anthony Weiner could have kept it in his pants and Comey had made as much noise about Trump and Russia as he did about her emails.
Aside from the content, I'm finding this to be a very readable book.