Tough love : my story of the things worth fighting for / Susan Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Susan E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rice, Susan E.

United Nations--Officials and employees--Biography.

United Nations.

United States. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs--Biography.

United States.

United States. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

Diplomats--United States--Biography.

Diplomats.

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Presidents--United States--Staff--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Foreign relations.

International relations.

National Security Council (U.S.).

Employees.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : 37 INK ; Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Summary:

"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 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- delivers an inspiring account of a life in service to family and country"-- Provided by publisher.

Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice 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. 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. 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.

Contents:

Prologue: Farewell to the moral universe

Service in my soul

Coming up

Growing up too soon

Twice as good

Go west, young woman

Busting out

Rookie season

Always Africa

Storming state

"I remember when I too was a young assistant secretary"

Going global

Represent

High-stakes diplomacy

The Arab Spring comes to New York

Star Wars cantina

Benghazi

Running the table

The furies

Point guard

Putting points on the board

The fourth quarter

"He f#%@ing won?"

Bridging the divide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-501) and index.

ISBN:

9781501189975

1501189972

OCLC:

1103670293

Publisher Number:

99982271071