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Prime Minister of Pakistan, Bhutto writes with poise and passion in this autobiography, both a catharsis and a coming to terms with her past. In the poignant opening chapter, she describes the brutal murder in 1977 of her father, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, by General Zia ul-Haq. Under Zia's 11-year military dictatorship, propped up by the CIA and the Reagan administration, the author was kept under house arrest, then imprisoned for years in a cell, where guards encouraged her to commit suicide. She writes lovingly of her brother Shah Nawaz, whose highly suspicious death may have been a CIA murder, she speculates. She is evasive or reticent on sundry personal matters, such as her arranged marriage in 1987. Reading Bhutto's reminiscences about prison, schooling at Harvard and Oxford and her valuable work during her political exile, the reader grows impatient to learn more about what she intends to do for Pakistan, but the book ends on the eve of her triumphant election in late 1988. Photos. First serial to People.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Written by the new, young, female Prime Minister of Pakistan, this book is less her life story than a fascinating peek into the seamier side of Pakistani politics and a rabid diatribe against the late President Zia, who executed her illustrious father (also a democratically elected Prime Minister) despite international protests. It is the story of a remarkable family who bred a woman to leadership in a conservative Muslim society, of the sacrifice made to do so, and of the triumph of witnessing the masses once more exercising the right to vote in an ultra-poor Third World country. The account is biased, however, and must be balanced by another view such as Salmaan Taseer's excellent Bhutto, A Political Biography (Ithaca Pr., 1979). Recommended for most large collections.
- Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Prime Minister of Pakistan, Bhutto writes with poise and passion in this autobiography, both a catharsis and a coming to terms with her past. In the poignant opening chapter, she describes the brutal murder in 1977 of her father, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, by General Zia ul-Haq. Under Zia's 11-year military dictatorship, propped up by the CIA and the Reagan administration, the author was kept under house arrest, then imprisoned for years in a cell, where guards encouraged her to commit suicide. She writes lovingly of her brother Shah Nawaz, whose highly suspicious death may have been a CIA murder, she speculates. She is evasive or reticent on sundry personal matters, such as her arranged marriage in 1987. Reading Bhutto's reminiscences about prison, schooling at Harvard and Oxford and her valuable work during her political exile, the reader grows impatient to learn more about what she intends to do for Pakistan, but the book ends on the eve of her triumphant election in late 1988. Photos. First serial to People.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Written by the new, young, female Prime Minister of Pakistan, this book is less her life story than a fascinating peek into the seamier side of Pakistani politics and a rabid diatribe against the late President Zia, who executed her illustrious father (also a democratically elected Prime Minister) despite international protests. It is the story of a remarkable family who bred a woman to leadership in a conservative Muslim society, of the sacrifice made to do so, and of the triumph of witnessing the masses once more exercising the right to vote in an ultra-poor Third World country. The account is biased, however, and must be balanced by another view such as Salmaan Taseer's excellent Bhutto, A Political Biography (Ithaca Pr., 1979). Recommended for most large collections.
- Louise Leonard, Univ. of Florida Lib., Gainesville
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes on page 248
- The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes on page 248
- Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics, 5) by Mark K Thompson in Back Matter
- Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Paula R. Newberg in Back Matter
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