Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.

Prologue: The "improbable" Fiona Hill -- Introduction: From the coal house to the White House -- Part One: The coal house -- "Call the United Nations" -- Grasping at the future -- Out of your league -- Common Northerner -- Part Two: A divided house -- The land of opportunity -- Shock therapy -- Women's work -- Unlucky generations -- Part Three: The White House -- Me the people -- "Russia bitch" -- The price of populism -- Off with their heads -- The horrible year -- Part Four: Our house -- The great reckoning -- No more forgotten people -- No more forgotten places -- Afterword: Creating opportunity in the twenty-first century.