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Hannah Pakula

Hannah Pakula

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Hang in there
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My life in 8 words: "Filled with love, luck and punctuated by tragedies"
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The Last Empress will be released on November 03, 2009 in eBook
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Hannah Pakula Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Hang in there Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. "There's a Small Hotel," "I Get a Kick Out of You," the men's duet from "The Pearl Fishers," any of the songs from Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" or "The Youth's Magic Horn" Q. What’s your greatest fear? A. The sudden or accidental death of someone I love Q. What trait is most noticeable about you? A. My oversize glasses which I've been wearing for forty years. Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her? A. Probably one of the women I have written about so I could ask, "Tell me, please, where did I go right and where did I go wrong?" Learn more about Hannah Pakula

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Book roundup: Four women of considerable influence
USA Today, November 18, 2009
...a powerful influence on readers. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China By Hannah Pakula Simon & Schuster, 787 pp., $35 It's long march to finish The Last Empress, Hannah Pakula's account of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek...
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Wellesley Townsman, October 22, 2009
...only is “The Body in the Sleigh” a gripping whodunit, but it’s a classic tale of hope.” Hannah Pakula, Wellesley ’55, writes about another Wellesley alumna in her book “The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern...
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Legal History Blog, November 8, 2009
...Prophet: Moses and the American Story. Melanie Kirkpatrick, " China's Mystery Lady ," WSJ, 3 November, reviews Hannah Pakula's The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China. Tariq Ali, " The life and death of Trotsky ," Guardian,...