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There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
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89/100Author:
Fiona Hill
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
October 5, 2021
A celebrated foreign policy expert and witness in former President Trump's impeachment hearings argues that declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia, drawing on her personal journey out of poverty and unique perspective as an expert in Russian affairs.
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... a valuable and riveting historic document.
There Is Nothing for You Here...weaves together...two selves, slipping back and forth between the unsentimental memoir reflected in its melancholy title and the wonkish guide promised in its inspirational subtitle. The combination, however unlikely, mostly works—though by the end, the litany of policy prescriptions comes to sound a bit too much like a paper issued by the Brookings Institution, where Hill is currently a fellow. When recounting her life, Hill is a lucid writer, delivering her reminiscences in a vivid and wry style. As much as I wanted more of Hill the memoirist and less of Hill the expert, I began to sense that giving voice to both was the only way she could feel comfortable writing a book about herself.
... a mixture of icy rage and black humour.
Unlike other tell-all authors from the Trump administration, she isn’t obsessed with the scandalous. Much like her measured but riveting testimony in Trump’s first impeachment, the book offers a more sober, and thus perhaps more alarming, portrait of the 45th president. If Hill’s tone is restrained, it is damning by a thousand cuts. It lays out how a career devoted to understanding and managing the Russian threat crashed into her revelation that the greatest threat to America comes from within.
