Chelsea Manning: Untitled Chelsea Manning Memoir (2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
288 pages
English language
Published Jan. 11, 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
I learned a lot about Chelsea‘s transition and some of the events that made her famous. However, I could not claim that this book got me any closer to events or person.
A clear-eyed, sometimes painfully straightforward accounting of Chealsea Mannings life. Although everyone rewrites their past, you can feel the goal was to not hagiographise but rather an honest-as-possible accounting of the impacts of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the war on terror, and Mannings disillusion with the war.
A clear-eyed, sometimes painfully straightforward accounting of Chealsea Mannings life. Although everyone rewrites their past, you can feel the goal was to not hagiographise but rather an honest-as-possible accounting of the impacts of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the war on terror, and Mannings disillusion with the war.
