Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Riceâ€”National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the United Nationsâ€”reveals 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. Riceâ€™s eldersâ€”immigrants on one side and descendants of slaves on the otherâ€”had high expectations that each generation would rise. And rise they did, but not without paying it forwardâ€”in 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 nationâ€™s youngest assistant secretaries of state and, later, one of President Obamaâ€™s most trusted advisors.

Rice provides an insiderâ€™s account of some of the most complex issues confronting the United States over three decades, ranging from â€œBlack Hawk Downâ€ 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 Snowdenâ€™s 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 Riceâ€”whose name became synonymous with Benghazi following her Sunday news show appearances after the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libyaâ€”now, 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.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-10-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501189975

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-10-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501189975

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

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