Research Catalog

Title

Daughter of destiny : an autobiography / Benazir Bhutto.

Author

Bhutto, Benazir, 1953-2007

Publication

New York : Harper Perennial, 2008, c2007.

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Details

Description

xx, 446 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Presents the life of the former prime minister of Pakistan, from growing up in a wealthy and influential Pakistani family, through her years as a political prisoner and an exile, to her return to Pakistan and rise to political power.

Subject

• Bhutto, Benazir, 1953-2007
• 1971-1988
• Politicians > Pakistan > Biography
• Pakistan > Politics and government > 1971-1988

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The assassination of my father -- The years of detention. Imprisoned in my own house ; Reflections from Al-Murtaza: My first taste of democracy ; Reflections from Al-Murtaza: The dreaming spires at Oxford ; Reflections from Al-Murtaza: The high treason of Zia ul-Haq ; Reflections from Al-Murtaza: The judicial murder of my father ; Release from Al-Murtaza: Democracy's challenge to martial law ; Solitary confinement in Sukkur Jail ; Locked in my mother's old cell at Karachi Central Jail ; Two more years alone in sub-jail -- Taking on the dictator. The years of exile ; The death of my brother ; Return to Lahore and the August 1986 Massacre ; Married from my father's house ; New hope for democracy ; The people prevail ; Prime Minister and beyond -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780061672682 (pbk.)
• 0061672688 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 225508613
• SCSB-11161235

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library