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88/100Author:
Maria Ressa
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
November 29, 2022
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, this is a memoir of a career spent holding power to account. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late.
What The Reviewers Say
What flows through this, Ressa’s memoir, is a strong ethical sense that journalism has to be grounded in honesty and truth-telling, in evidence and incontrovertible facts.
[Maria Ressa] is a moral giant.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa’s powerful new autobiography, How to Stand Up to a Dictator, weaves together three compelling narratives.
A riveting inside view of what it’s like to be a dissident fighting authoritarianism. This engrossing book is a political history of the Philippines and an intimate memoir, but it’s also a warning to democracies everywhere.
