There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

"Of every book written by anybody associated with the Trump administration, in any way, [this] is absolutely the one to read."
--Rachel Maddow

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.

"As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."
--Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny

Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces around her. Her father urged her to get out of their blighted corner of northern England: "There is nothing for you here, pet," he said.

The coal-miner's daughter managed to go further than he ever could have dreamed. She studied in Moscow and at Harvard, became an American citizen, and served three U.S. Presidents. But in the heartlands of both Russia and the United States, she saw troubling reflections of her hometown and similar populist impulses. By the time she offered her brave testimony in the first impeachment inquiry of President Trump, Hill knew that the desperation of forgotten people was driving American politics over the brink--and that we were running out of time to save ourselves from Russia's fate. In this powerful, deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and shows why expanding opportunity is the only long-term hope for our democracy.

Author: Fiona Hill
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780358574316

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2021 pg. 31
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2021
Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 96
Booklist 10/01/2021 pg. 11

About the Author
FIONA HILL is the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. From 2017 to 2019, she served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. Coauthor of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, she lives in the Washington, D.C. area.