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Readme.txt, a memoir, Chelsea Manning

Label
Readme.txt, a memoir, Chelsea Manning
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Readme.txt
Oclc number
1101501814
Responsibility statement
Chelsea Manning
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
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. 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
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Read me dot text
Classification
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