Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
by Susan Rice
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- ISBN 13
- 9781501189975
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* Inscribed and SIGNED by author on title page. * First printing (number line contains "1"). * Book cover near new, light edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new. * Jacket like new, slight edge wear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library; books sold are NOT ex-library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care." Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. RiceNational Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nationsreveals her surprising story with unflinching candor in this New York Times bestseller. Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice powerfully connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few, Susan now shares the wisdom she learned along the way. Laying bare the family struggles that shaped her early life in Washington, DC, she also examines the ancestral legacies that influenced her. Rices eldersimmigrants on one side and descendants of slaves on the otherhad high expectations that each generation would rise. And rise they did, but not without paying it forwardin uniform and in the pulpit, as educators, community leaders, and public servants. Susan too rose rapidly. She served throughout the Clinton administration, becoming one of the nations youngest assistant secretaries of state and, later, one of President Obamas most trusted advisors. Rice provides an insiders account of some of the most complex issues confronting the United States over three decades, ranging from Black Hawk Down in Somalia to the genocide in Rwanda and the East Africa embassy bombings in the late 1990s, and from conflicts in Libya and Syria to the Ebola epidemic, a secret channel to Iran, and the opening to Cuba during the Obama years. With unmatched insight and characteristic bluntness, she reveals previously untold stories behind recent national security challenges, including confrontations with Russia and China, the war against ISIS, the struggle to contain the fallout from Edward Snowdens NSA leaks, the U.S. response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the surreal transition to the Trump administration. Although you might think you know Susan Ricewhose name became synonymous with Benghazi following her Sunday news show appearances after the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libyanow, through these pages, you truly will know her for the first time. Often mischaracterized by both political opponents and champions, Rice emerges as neither a villain nor a victim, but a strong, resilient, compassionate leader. Intimate, sometimes humorous, but always candid, Tough Love makes an urgent appeal to the American public to bridge our dangerous domestic divides in order to preserve our democracy and sustain our global leadership.
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- Title
- Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
- Author
- Susan Rice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1501189972
- ISBN 13
- 9781501189975
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Date Published
- 2019
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- Friends of the LIbrary; Signed Books; Social Sciences;
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