Short description
Benazir Bhutto's first memoir, Daughter of Destiny, comes at a time when Pakistan, and the world at large, is in turmoil and mourning over her tragic and controversial death. As the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, one of Pakistan's most popular leaders, Benazir Bhutto was the youngest person and the first woman to lead an Islamic country. Her autobiography explores her highly politicized and dramatic life as a public figure, including her educational experiences abroad at both Harvard and Oxford, her father's execution and her subsequent arrest, her election to Prime Minister in 1988, and her years spent living as an exile in London. Nop with a new epilogue by Mark Siegel, her longtime advisor and collaborator, Benazir Bhutto's remarkable life story will find a strong, courageous voice once more in the aftermath of her tragic death.
Long description
Daughter of Destiny, the autobiography of Benazir Bhutto, is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brilliant, beautiful woman whose life was, up to her tragic assassination in 2007, inexorably tied to her nation's tumultuous history. Bhutto writes of growing up in a family of legendary wealth and near-mythic status, a family whose rich heritage survives in tales still passed from generation to generation. She describes her journey from this protected world onto the volatile stage of international politics through her education at Radcliffe and Oxford, the sudden coup that plunged her family into a prolonged nightmare of threats and torture, her father's assassination by General Zia ul-Haq in 1979, and her grueling experience as a political prisoner in solitary confinement. With candor and courage, Benazir Bhutto recounts her triumphant political rise from her return to Pakistan from exile in 1986 through the extraordinary events of 1988: the mysterious death of Zia; her party's long struggle to ensure free elections; and finally, the stunning mandate that propelled her overnight into the ranks of the world's most powerful, influential leaders.