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

"INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This is hard to put down; if you are seeking a higher American destiny you ought to pick it up.”—Timothy Snyder, New York Times first-class-selling creator of On Tyranny"

A celebrated overseas policy professional and key impeachment witness reveal how declining opportunity has set America at the grim course of contemporary Russia—and draws on her adventure out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as a historian and policymaker, to expose how we will return hope to our forgotten places. Fiona Hill grew up in a global of terminal decay. The remaining of the local mines had closed, agencies have been shuttering, and depression become etched in the faces around her. Her father entreated her to get out of their blighted corner of northern England: “There is nothing for you right here, pet,” he said. The coal miner's daughter controlled to head further than he ever ought to have dreamed. But within the heartlands of each Russia and the USA, she noticed troubling reflections of her fatherland and comparable populist impulses. By the time she provided her courageous testimony within the first impeachment inquiry of President Trump, Hill knew that the desperation of forgotten humans was riding American politics over the threshold—and that we were strolling out of time to stop ourselves from Russia’s destiny. In this powerful, deeply non-public account, she shares what she has learned, and indicates why the increasing opportunity is the best long-term wish for our democracy.