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Surrender Is Not an Option
John Bolton
Defending America at the United Nations
Threshold Editions
November 2007
On Sale: November 6, 2007
496 pages ISBN: 1416552847 EAN: 9781416552840 Hardcover
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With no-holds-barred candor, the straight-talking former
ambassador to the United Nations takes readers behind the
scenes at the UN and the U.S. State Department and reveals
why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the
UN resulted in controversy. A veteran of three Republican
administrations and a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace
Prize, Bolton shows how the U.S. can lead the way to a more
realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first
century and identifies the next generation of threats to
America. The son of a
Baltimore firefighter and the first person in his family to
go to college, with scholarships to Yale University and Yale
Law School, John Bolton studied with preeminent conservative
thinkers Robert Bork and Ralph Winter. After law school, he
experienced the "Reagan Revolution" firsthand in Edwin
Meese's justice department -- where the American judiciary
was fundamentally reshaped. His diplomatic skills were honed
working with Secretary of State James Baker during the
presidency of George H. W. Bush, and serving in the
administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary
of State for Arms Control and International Security
Affairs. In this revealing memoir, he candidly
recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United
Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle,
which resulted in his recess appointment, and his
sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers
keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's
nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the
genocide in Darfur, the monthlong negotiation that produced
the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and
Hezbollah, and more. Recounting both his successes and
frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons-of-mass
destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such
as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational
inadequacies that hinder the UN's effectiveness in
international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the
United States. At home, he criticizes the pernicious
bureaucratic inertia in the U.S. State Department that can
undermine presidential policy. A fascinating
chronicle of the career of a distinguished lawyer and
diplomat who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and
strength at home and abroad, Surrender Is Not an
Option is the candid memoir of one of America's
outstanding statesmen that is sure to become required
reading for everyone interested in international affairs.
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