Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
by Benazir Bhutto
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Benazir recounts how through her tenacity to her father's memory she emerged from political persecution and exile to become the leader of the Pakistan People's Party.Tags
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Aivan mielettömän mielenkiintoinen kirja. Nolona täytyy tunnustaa, että käsitykseni Pakistanin tilanteesta ja sen historiasta oli aika ankea... Kirjan löysin Oitin kirjaston poistomyynnistä ja ostin heti. Ajattelin, että luen Suomessa ja jätän äidille, joka varmaan on myös kiinnostunut. Ja en vain malttanut laskea kirjaa käsistä. Kirja on henkilökohtainen, mutta samalla myös poliittinen, koska Benazirin elämä nivoutui niin tiukasti Pakistanin poliittiseen tilanteeseen. Harvasta ihmisestä on näin paljon sanottavaa 35-vuotiaana.
Revealing and disingenuous by turns, Daughter of the East tells a very personal sort of history indeed. It's a worthy read, but by no means should it be one's first or only choice on the topics concerned.
Bhutto’s autobiography, Daughter of Destiny (published in 1988 as Daughter of the East), tells a completely unique story. Bhutto was the first woman prime minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan), and she first went through years of struggle, including years of solitary confinement, before she could be an example of democracy.
Much of her autobiography was written prior to 1988, before she was elected prime minister. She says she wrote it “to set down the record of the brutal Martial Law regime of General Zia ul-Haq” (page 374). The remainder of her book shares how she was briefly allowed to serve the country and restore some democratic freedoms before a dictatorship again gained control of the country.
Reading about life under a show more dictatorship helped me to finally understand a little bit what it meant to live under a dictator: it meant denying what you know to be true because you’re threatened.
Benazir Bhutto shares her passion for Pakistan, the people of Pakistan, and democracy in her autobiography. I only wish it were better told: Daughter of Destiny had serious flaws (such as very poor writing and an overall "pity me" attitude) that made it a frustrating read.
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Much of her autobiography was written prior to 1988, before she was elected prime minister. She says she wrote it “to set down the record of the brutal Martial Law regime of General Zia ul-Haq” (page 374). The remainder of her book shares how she was briefly allowed to serve the country and restore some democratic freedoms before a dictatorship again gained control of the country.
Reading about life under a show more dictatorship helped me to finally understand a little bit what it meant to live under a dictator: it meant denying what you know to be true because you’re threatened.
Benazir Bhutto shares her passion for Pakistan, the people of Pakistan, and democracy in her autobiography. I only wish it were better told: Daughter of Destiny had serious flaws (such as very poor writing and an overall "pity me" attitude) that made it a frustrating read.
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Awesome autobiography! I would pick it up every now and then and was never disappointed. It was fascinating taking a glimpse into the Pakistani culture and the tribulations Benazir Bhutto has lived through. I would recommend this to others.
a courageous women
it is very interesating
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Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan on June 21, 1953. She received degrees from Radcliffe College and Oxford University. In 1977, her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was elected prime minister of Pakistan, but soon afterwards the military seized power of the country and her father was arrested and later hanged. The years that followed were show more filled with arrests, being forced to leave the country, and returning to her homeland. After returning to Pakistan in April 1986, she publicly called for the resignation of Zia Ul Haq, whose government had executed her father. When free elections were finally held in 1988, she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan becoming the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country. Only two years into her first term, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed her from office because of alleged corruption. However, she was re-elected in 1993 and while in office, she brought electricity to the countryside, built schools all over the country, and made hunger, housing and health care her top priorities. She constantly faced opposition from the Islamic fundamentalist movement and in 1996 President Farooq Leghari of Pakistan dismissed her from office for alleged mismanagement. She went into self-imposed exile in 1998. She returned to her homeland in 2007 and the first assassination attempt was made within hours of her arrival. With the possibility of her becoming prime minister again, the extremists orchestrated a second assassination attempt. This one was successful and she died on December 27, 2007 from injuries suffered during the attack. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Figlia del destino
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- Daughter of the East
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- 1988
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- Benazir Bhutto
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