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Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested and The Nation shut down. Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile and tried, unsuccessfully, to foment a revolution. Exiled to America with his wife and children, Ed never gave up hope that Burma would one day adopt a new democratic government. Though he died disappointed, he left in his daughter's care an illuminating trove of papers documenting the experiences of an eccentric, ambitious, humorous, and determined patriot, vividly recounting the realities of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, postwar reconstruction, and military dictatorship. This memoir tells the twin histories of Law-Yone's kin and his country, a nation whose vicissitudes continue to intrigue the world.
Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword, by David I. Steinberg Prologue Part 1Inside 1. The Lost Nation 2. Born That Way 3. The Tiger's Footprints 4. Theatre of War 5. Birth of The Nation 6. On the Green Couch 7. Steppe by Steppe 8. Muckracker, Kingmaker 9. No Return 10. When the Show Opens in Earnest Part 2: Outside 11. Man of La Mancha 12. Golden Parasol 13. Alban 14. Nobody's Nation Part 3: Homing 15. The Old Road 16. Mum A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index
