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Title details for README.txt by Chelsea Manning - Available

README.txt

A Memoir

by Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning
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"Manning reads her book in a sharp voice that is clearly accustomed to marshaling information..."- Washington Post
"[Manning's] text and performance create a blistering autobiography that is both observant and instructive."- AudioFile
"In both content and narration, Manning displays a keen ability to imbue this detailed account of her life and activism with both sarcasm and sincerity." - Library Journal
"In this revealing memoir, Manning details her experience in military intelligence and her ultimate decision to share classified information with WikiLeaks in this revealing memoir. Listeners will appreciate Manning's voice as she explores her reasoning for her decisions and accepts her fate with dignity."- Booklist
This program is read by the author.
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.
While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013 she was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison.
The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition, seeking hormones through the federal court system. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison.
In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pride she has about the work she does. This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of our digital, information-driven age.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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    October 18, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781250241719
      • File size: 261340 KB
      • Duration: 09:04:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Chelsea Manning narrates her own memoir, which chronicles her ambition to make the government and military transparent and beholden to the citizenry they serve. Manning leaked to the public thousands of documents and videos she collected as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq. Her 35-year sentence to a federal penitentiary was commuted in 2017 after 7 years. Hearing her life story in her own words and voice layers in a compelling sense of intimacy and urgency. In a meticulous account, Manning not only confronts her drive for transparency but also examines her life of gender dysphoria before her gender-affirmation surgery. Manning maintains a flat affect when describing the abuse she's endured. Her text and performance create a blistering autobiography that is both observant and instructive. J.M.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2023

      In 2010, Manning, then an intelligence analyst in the U.S. military, made headlines when she leaked over 700,000 classified U.S. military and diplomatic records via WikiLeaks. She continued to make headlines as she was held in solitary confinement before trial, when she came out as a transgender woman following her conviction, and as the public rallied for her to be pardoned. Manning also fought to become the first person to receive health care related to gender transition while in military prison. Narrated by the author, this memoir begins from Manning's difficult childhood, growing up gay in Oklahoma, and what it meant for her to exist as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community in the military under Don't Ask, Don't Tell--from boot camp to Iraq. Throughout her life's story, listeners also hear about Manning's journey to understand herself as a woman. In both content and narration, Manning displays a keen ability to imbue this detailed account of her life and activism with both sarcasm and sincerity. VERDICT An essential purchase in modern military history, U.S. history, and LGBTQIA+ history. Recommended for readers of activist memoirs and LGBTQIA+ memoirs and history.--Diana Rocha

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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