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There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (2021)

par Fiona Hill

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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 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… (plus d'informations)

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I was fascinated by this book that was largely a memoir of the Russia expert who told the story to Congress of what had happened in Ukraine - the conspiracy amongst Trumpists to sideline Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and attempt to extort Ukraine President Zlensky in 2019. Her frequent references to her childhood and ancestry in deindustrialized North East England gave the reader an in-depth view into who she was, and where she came from. Much more of the book is about her journey - yes, not a figure of speech - through the University of Saint Andrews, multiple study trips to Russia, unexpected encounters with numerous people who opened doors for her or gave her the chance at opening ideas and changes in her life.
I felt enthused during the entire reading of this book and am very happy - and grateful - that she is in our world. ( )
  RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |
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. ( )
  JBreedlove | Jun 24, 2023 |
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. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | May 20, 2023 |
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. ( )
  siriaeve | Jun 16, 2022 |
Good read. Not what I was expecting.
  rehpii | Mar 27, 2022 |
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On November 21, 2019, I walked through the door of Room 1100 of the Longworth Office Building in Washington, D.C., to appear before the House Intelligence Committee. (Prologue)
I was born in 1965 and grew up poor as the daughter of a former coal miner in the United Kingdom's equivalent of America's Rust Belt, the North East of England. (Introduction)
It wasn't until the late 1970s, when I was thirteen, that I became aware that there was a working class and that I was in it.
To get our house in order for the rest of this century, America needs political and economic reforms to be tied together - and honest assessments of why some issues are so difficult to tackle and what works and what does not. (Conclusion)
While federal, state, and local governments, large foundations, and wealthy individual philanthropists play critical roles in creating opportunities for underprivileged Americans, each of us as an individual actor can help create what I describe in this book as the infrastructure of opportunity. (Afterword)
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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

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