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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 Power's book is honest, personal, revealing. It is about the development of a young woman's inner strength and self-knowledge. But it is also a political book, alert to both the power of political will and its limitations.?
Colm Tóibín

?It?s a profound, heart wrenching, uplifting, and emotional journey through her life and what she?s seen; starting in her youth in Ireland, and taking us through places like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and eventually the White House ? All while navigating war zones and political culture as a woman and eventually a mother.?
Sophia Bush

?An unusually engaging political memoir?Power is an excellent storyteller, with a deft touch with anecdotes and a nice sense of humour.?
Times Literary Supplement

?Refreshingly frank and self-deprecating ? An energizing reminder that conscience has a place in the process of shaping foreign policy.?
TIME Magazine

?Uniquely personal and absorbing ? A riveting fly-on-the wall insight.?
Irish Times

?A wonderful book ? The interweaving of Power?s personal story, family story, diplomatic history and moral arguments is executed seamlessly ? and with unblinking honesty.?
New York Times Book Review

?Engaging ? Power?s memoir is an insider?s 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

Samantha Power is a leading global voice on human rights and international affairs. She served for four years as President Barack Obama?s human rights adviser and then, from 2013 to 2017, in his Cabinet and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ?A Problem From Hell?: America and the Age of Genocide, and has been named one of TIME?s ?100 Most Influential People? and one of Forbes? ?100 Most Powerful Women?. Currently a professor of practice at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Cass Sunstein, and their two children. Power immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine.