Book HackThe Education of an IdealistBy Samantha Power
In a Nutshell
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning war journalist and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, tells her life story.
Favorite Quote
America's greatest assets remain our democracy and the citizens who comprise it. The best predictor of whether we will ultimately 'be okay' is if citizens who stand to benefit or lose from political decisions choose to organize and vote.
Samantha Power
Introduction
In 1993, Samantha Power was a Bosnian War correspondent, shaking her fist at the Clinton administration's hesitant response to genocide.
Twenty years later, Power found herself debating responses to Syrian massacres in Obama's Situation Room.
Power has had her idealism tested far beyond the average person, and this book details the trials she has been through.
Born in Ireland but raised in the U.S., Power has dedicated her life to easing human suffering in the world's most dangerous places.
Power won the Pulitzer Prize for A Problem From Hell, her book about North American responses to genocide in the 20th century, before meeting Barack Obama and becoming his Ambassador to the U.N.
The Education of an Idealist charts Power's life up until the moments after Donald Trump entered the White House, offering detailed insight into war journalism, human rights activism, and elite-level global diplomacy.
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