The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power

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. It is about the development of a young womans inner strength and self-knowledge. 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. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008274900 Number of pages: 592 Weight: 970 g Dimensions: 240 x 159 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Samantha Powers book is honest, personal, revealing. After his presidential election, Obama brought Power into the National Security Council in 2009, and from 2013 to 2017, she served as U.S. Barack Obama, who asked her to serve as a foreign policy adviser. She graduated from Harvard Law School, and in 2005 met Sen. 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. 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. 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 by Samantha Power