Chelsea Manning is an American transparency activist, politician and former US Army intelligence analyst. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a security consultant and expert in data science and machine learning. She has written for the Guardian and New York Times and tweets @xychelsea.
A terrific read, full of unexpected turns and details that counter many of the assumptions made about Manning at the time ... Opens like a Jason Bourne novel * Guardian * Gripping ... It takes extraordinary qualities to do some of the things she recounts in this book ... Manning has become a new kind of American heroine * Observer * A searing personal element ... Although troubling to read, it manages to be uplifting as well * The New York Times * A compelling, taut account of what she experienced and a persuasive justification of how she behaved * Guardian * Electrifying ... an insider confessional turned inside out for the 21st century ... exhausted and precarious, darting between parking lots and coffee shops with a thumb drive and a set of headphones ... Manning conducts a pitched battle against the mass-marketization of death ... reckons with this complex relationship of sex and gender to political radicalism ... absorbing ... sublime * Washington Post *