Aung San Suu Kyi. A Biography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Potomac Books
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 228 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The leader of Burmas democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, has joined Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama in the global pantheon of those whose lives are dedicated to freedom. Throughout the world, she is associated with a peaceful struggle for democracy and human rights. But what is she really like What drives her to make such enormous personal sacrifices for her country Jesper Bengtsson presents a portrait of one of todays most significant political activists. He chronicles her background as the daughter of Burmas liberation hero Aung San, the years she spent in England and New York, and her return to Burma in the 1980s. First placed under house arrest by the military junta in 1989, she spent fifteen of the subsequent twenty-one years in captivity, separated from her husband and two children. Throughout that period, she remained a unifying figure and activist for Burmas democracy movement. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, she saw her reputation and her international stature grow the longer she was under house arrest. Upon her release in November 2010, she immediately took up her work with the democracy movement and proved that she remains the most important political force in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyis ability to affect people and repressive regimes reflects not only her personal charisma and courage but also her devotion to one of the great issues of our times: What is necessary for democracy to evolve from a deeply authoritarian system AUTHOR: Jesper Bengtsson is a journalist who has followed developments in Burma for more than a decade. He is the chairman of the Swedish section of the human-rights organization Reporters sans frontires. The author of Burma: A Journey in the Shadow of the Dictatorship, he has also written editorials for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. SELLING POINTS: Features interviews with many of Aung San Suu Kyis closest associates, as well as one with Suu Kyi herself in February 2011, just three months after her release from house arrest Explores Burmas history as well as the personal and political struggles of its best-known human rights activist Puts Suu Kyis fight for democracy in an authoritarian regime in global and historical perspective ILLUSTRATIONS: 10 b/w photographs *

ISBN: 9781612341590