Samantha Power

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. Named one of the best books of the year: The New York Times • National Public Radio • Time • The Economist • The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly • Audible “Her highly personal and reflective memoir . . . is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world.”—President Barack Obama Includes an updated afterword Tracing her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official, Samantha Power’s acclaimed memoir is a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight. After her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of Senator Barack Obama, he invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. When Obama won the presidency, Power went from being an activist outsider to serving as his human rights adviser and, in 2013, becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations. 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, offering a compelling and deeply honest look at navigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice. Along the way, she lays bare the searing battles and defining moments of her life, shows how she juggled the demands of a 24/7 national security job with raising two young children, and makes the case for how we each can advance the cause of human dignity. This is an unforgettable account of the power of idealism—and of one person’s fierce determination to make a difference. “This is a wonderful book. […] The interweaving of Power’s personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly and with unblinking honesty.”—THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, The New York Times Book Review “Truly engrossing…A pleasure to read.”—RACHEL MADDOW “A beautiful memoir about the times we’re living in and the questions we must ask ourselves…I honestly couldn’t put it down.” —CHERYL STRAYED, author of Wild “Power’s compelling memoir provides critically important insights we should all understand as we face some of the most vexing issues of our time.” —BRYAN STEVENSON, author of Just Mercy

A Memoir

The Education of an Idealist

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting from the modern killing fields, Power provides the answer in "A Problem from Hell" -- a groundbreaking work that tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act.

A Problem from Hell

Roméo Dallaire

A Canadian general and former United Nations peacekeeper shares his harrowing eyewitness account of the genocide in Rwanda, revealing how he and his men managed to rescue thousands of people despite the orgy of bloodletting that was erupting all around them. Reprint

the failure of humanity in Rwanda

Shake hands with the devil

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes an epic tale--part thriller, part tragedy--of the political career of humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello and his tragic death in 2003 in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq.

Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

Chasing the Flame

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Graham Allison

At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.

Moving from Inspiration to Impact

Realizing Human Rights

Raphael Lemkin

"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.

Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe

Derek Chollet

Derek H. Chollet

A book that includes Richard Holbrooke's own writings as well as reflections by friends and colleagues looks at the life of a master American diplomat who worked for presidents Clinton and Obama in places like Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Richard Holbrooke in the World

The Unquiet American

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER ‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Memoires van de Amerikaanse politica en diplomate (1970), van 2013 tot 2017 Amerikaanse ambassadeur bij de Verenigde Naties.

memoires

Leerschool van een idealist

Traces the political career of the United Nations humanitarian who lost his life in the 2003 terrorist attack on the UN Headquarters in Iraq, citing his role in the peace negotiations in post-invasion Lebanon and the cease-fire talks in Bosnia.

One Man's Fight to Save the World

Sergio

O relato honesto e inspirador da vencedora do prêmio Pulitzer, ativista pelos direitos humanos e ex-embaixadora dos Estados Unidos na ONU. Da autora de Genocídio e O homem que queria mudar o mundo. Nesta obra autobiográfica de fôlego, Samantha Power reconstitui a trajetória brilhante e incomum de uma irlandesa que imigrou para os Estados Unidos ainda criança, trabalhou como correspondente de guerra na Europa Oriental, tornou-se ativista de direitos humanos, integrou o gabinete presidencial de Barack Obama e foi a mais jovem embaixadora americana na ONU. Seu relato expõe as dificuldades e os momentos decisivos de sua vida, além dos desafios de equilibrar as demandas profissionais com a maternidade. Ao mesmo tempo, a autora joga luz sobre aspectos da diplomacia mundial e reflete sobre as possibilidades e os limites da atuação política. Best-seller internacional, eleito um dos melhores livros do ano por veículos como New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, NPR e Time, A educação de uma idealista é um testemunho de como o idealismo pode mudar o mundo — e da determinação incansável de alguém que sempre quis fazer a diferença. "Leitura indispensável para qualquer um que se preocupa com nosso papel num mundo em movimento." — Barack Obama "Honesto, íntimo e revelador. [...] É a trajetória de uma pessoa com alma de outsider que se tornou uma testemunha apaixonada dos acontecimentos durante o governo Obama." — Colm Tóibín

Memórias

A educação de uma idealista

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans.

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