The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of BurmaThe definitive biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro democracy leader. Until she was released in November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi had been under house arrest in Burma for fourteen of the previous twenty years. She was already confined to her home when the party she co founded and led, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory in a general election in 1990. The result was never acknowledged by the military regime in power for many

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Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable

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