Power's memoir is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism?and of one person's fierce determination to make a difference. Along the way, she illuminates the intricacies of politics and geopolitics, reminding us how the United States can lead in the world, and why we each have the opportunity to advance the cause of human dignity. Humorous and deeply honest, The Education of an Idealist lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life and shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with the challenge of raising two young children. A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER An intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner, human rights advocate, and former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power. A Pulitzer Prize?winning writer, Power transports us from her childhood in Dublin to the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the White House Situation Room and the world of high-stakes diplomacy. She served for four years as Obama's human rights adviser, and in 2013, he named her US Ambassador to the United Nations, the youngest American to assume the role. After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. The Education of an Idealist traces Power's distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. The Education of an Idealist is a memoir about these things, but also about idealism as a guiding principle of thought and action: where it comes from, how it gets challenged, and why it must endure. (Sept.Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"?and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Powers distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presiden. Power’s vibrant prose, exuberant storytelling, and deep insights into human nature make for a page-turning memoir. Ultimately, she stresses the necessity of caring, acting, and not giving up when seeking to change people’s lives. She discovered that Burma’s human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi is a bad listener and that it’s not clear that Suu Kyi cared that much about humans. Power takes readers behind the scenes of her visits to Libya during the final tense days of the Qaddafi regime, pointing out that in spite of the downturn in security, Libya’s citizens agreed that they wanted no international presence in their country, but to determine their own future. After his presidential election, Obama brought Power into the National Security Council in 2009, and from 2013 to 2017, she served as U.S. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power HarperCollins Publishers, Biography & Autobiography - 592 pages 7 Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY. Barack Obama, who asked her to serve as a foreign policy adviser. She graduated from Harvard Law School, and in 2005 met Sen. She is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World (2008) and The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019), which was named one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, NPR, and TIME. In vividly told scenes, with bracing honesty and breathless prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner Power ( A Problem from Hell) reflects on the roads that led from her college days at Yale to her work in the U.S.
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