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Perfect Hostage, A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience

Perfect Hostage, A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience

by Justin Wintle

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 464 PAGES

A portrait of the Burmese activist minister and non-violence advocate describes the factors that contributed to her house arrest in 1989, her work to promote non-aggressive civil resistance, and her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.  (BMA55, $27.95)


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