SUSAN RICE—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and
US Ambassador to the United Nations—discusses her _New York Times_
bestseller _Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For_.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines
of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice—National
Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the
United Nations—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. Rice’s elders—immigrants on one side and
descendants of slaves on the other—had high expectations that each
generation would rise. And rise they did, but not without paying it
forward—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 nation’s youngest assistant
secretaries of state and, later, one of President Obama’s most
trusted advisors.
Rice provides an insider’s 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 Snowden’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 Rice—whose name became
synonymous with Benghazi following her Sunday news show appearances
after the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya—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.
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