New biography offers few insights into her thinking but gives a useful overview of her place in present-day Burma... Justin Wintle?s biography of Burma?s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi does not really bring the reader into direct contact with the world?s best known prisoner of conscience until the second of its four parts—and the first is by far the longest. Some will say he is guilty of padding, others that it is impossible to make any sense of the intractable mess that is contemporary Burma without an appreciation of the historical context..."