{"title":"Books by Samantha Power","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008274924","title":"The Education of an Idealist","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Her highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world’ Barack Obama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘What can one person do?’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this vibrant, galvanizing memoir, human rights advocate and Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question. As she traces her path from Irish immigrant to war correspondent and activist to eventually becoming the youngest-ever US Ambassador to the United Nations, Power writes with a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits and disarming honesty. Her account illuminates the challenges of navigating the halls of power while trying to put one’s ideals into practice (and raise two young children along the way), and it shows how – even in the face of daunting challenges – each of us can make a difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOW WITH UPDATED AFTERWORD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201208778930,"sku":"9780008274924","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008274924.jpg?v=1785658707"},{"product_id":"9780008359386","title":"A Problem from Hell","description":"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCHWhy do leaders who vow ‘never again’ repeatedly fail to prevent genocide?In her award-winning modern classic, Samantha Power presents a deeply researched and powerfully argued answer to this haunting question. Disproving claims that successive American leaders were unaware of genocidal horrors occurring around the world, Power tells the stories of courageous individuals who risked their careers and lives in an effort to save others, revealing how policy makers and outsiders alike ignored chilling warnings and rationalised inaction. A riveting account, A Problem From Hell has forever reshaped debates about foreign policy, while inspiring a new generation to raise their voices in the face of contemporary injustice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201237418162,"sku":"9780008359386","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008359386.jpg?v=1785659133"},{"product_id":"9780141020815","title":"Chasing the Flame","description":"\u003cp\u003eSergio Vieira de Mello-a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder -was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines in the twenty first-century's first great polarizing struggle were being drawn. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a dual biography: the story of a man who never stopped learning and the biography of a perilous world whose ills are too big to ignore but too complex to manage quickly or cheaply. Even as Vieira de Mello arranged food deliveries, organized refugee returns, or negotiated with warlords, he pressed his colleagues to join him in grappling with such questions as: When should killers be engaged and when should they be shunned? When is military force justified? How can outsiders play a role in healing broken people and broken places? He did not have the luxury of simply posing these questions; he had to find answers, apply them, and live with the consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224442712437,"sku":"9780141020815","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141020815_09f41b28-f151-4014-b1df-a7f91c81238d.jpg?v=1786011426"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-samantha-power.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}