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Description: The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power Her highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world Barack ObamaTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Times Literary Supplement FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Her highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world Barack ObamaTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Times Literary Supplement What can one person do? In this vibrant, galvanizing memoir, human rights advocate and Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question. As she traces her path from Irish immigrant to war correspondent and activist to eventually becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations, Power writes with a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits and disarming honesty.Her account illuminates the challenges of navigating the halls of power while trying to put ones ideals into practice (and raise two young children along the way), and it shows how – even in the face of daunting challenges – each of us can make a difference.NOW WITH UPDATED AFTERWORD Author Biography Samantha Power founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and is now a faculty affiliate. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in Yugoslavia as a reporter for US News and the Economist. A native of Ireland, she moved to the US in 1979 at the age of nine, and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. Review A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERAN OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF 2019NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Times Literary SupplementHer highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.Barack ObamaSamantha Powers book is honest, personal, revealing. It is about the development of a young womans inner strength and self-knowledge. But it is also a political book, alert to both the power of political will and its limitations.Colm TóibínA beautiful memoir about the times were living in and the questions we must ask ourselves … I honestly couldnt put it downCheryl StrayedThis is a wonderful book … The interweaving of Powers personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly and with unblinking honestyNew York TimesOne of the best-written political memoirs of recent years Fareed ZakariaIts a profound, heart wrenching, uplifting, and emotional journey through her life and what shes seenSophia BushAn unusually engaging political memoir…Power is an excellent storyteller, with a deft touch with anecdotes and a nice sense of humour.Times Literary SupplementRefreshingly frank and self-deprecating … An energizing reminder that conscience has a place in the process of shaping foreign policyTIME MagazineUniquely personal and absorbing … A riveting fly-on-the wall insight.Irish TimesEngaging … Powers memoir is an insiders account of foreign-policy-making, and an intensely personal one.Economist Lively … And strikingly personal …[Power] writes vividly and lucidly here about her turn in the international spotlight.Vogue Promotional THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Review Quote A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA FAVOURITE BOOK OF 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world. Barack Obama Samantha Powers book is honest, personal, revealing. It is about the development of a young womans inner strength and self-knowledge. But it is also a political book, alert to both the power of political will and its limitations. Colm T Promotional "Headline" THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Feature THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * CANDID AND GALVANISING MEMOIR on the inner workings and foreign policy of the US government from a woman who was its UN Ambassador. She was widely known as the conscience of Obamas foreign policy team. * INSIDER INSIGHT INTO BARACK OBAMA on professional and personal level: Power worked on his campaign and served as US Ambassador to the UN during his Presidency. Obama features as inspiring leader, thinker, and friend. Includes tense fundamental disagreements over US intervention in Syria. * PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR. Beautiful writer and the book has literary scope as memoir: she reflects on childhood in Ireland, fathers alcoholism and death, past and present struggles with anxiety, and life as a mother with a 24/7 National Security job and two young children. * FIRST FULL STORY OF FEUD WITH HILLARY CLINTON, beginning with Powers dismissal from Obamas presidential campaign after calling Clinton a monster and leading to her reconciliation with Clinton within the White House. * LEADING INTERNATIONAL VOICE for principled American engagement with the world. One of TIMES 100 Most Influential People and Foreign Policys Top 100 Global Thinkers. * ACTIVE FOREIGN POLICY COLUMNIST FOR TIME MAGAZINE. Competition: Fascism A Warning;Educated;A Problem from Hell;Utopia for realists;Becoming;Tough Love;A Promised Land;The Truths We Hold;The World As It Is;My Own Words. Madeleine Albright;Tara Westover;Philip Gourevitch;Rutger Bregman;Naomi Klein;Michelle;Barack;Obama;Kamala Harris;Ruth Bader Ginsberg;Ben Rhodes Details ISBN0008274924 Author Samantha Power Pages 592 ISBN-10 0008274924 ISBN-13 9780008274924 Short Title The Education of an Idealist Language English Subtitle A Memoir Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-02-04 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2021-02-04 Imprint William Collins Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780008281564 DEWEY 323.092 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-06-29 NZ Release Date 2021-06-29 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132742941;

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