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Simon & Schuster
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
656 pages
ISBN: 1476751447
EAN: 9781476751443
Kindle: B00C69EP1S
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises,
choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as
America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences
drive her view of the future. “All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham
Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of
years at the center of world events. “Life is about making
such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the
people we become.” In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected
to return to representing New York in the United States
Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic
Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama,
asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of
State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary
and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that
she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to
repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address
a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in
China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and
revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they
grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign
policy, especially the decision to send Americans into
harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama
bin Laden. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112
countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a
truly global perspective on many of the major trends
reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from
economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in
energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations
with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers
her views on what it will take for the United States to
compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a
passionate case for human rights and the full participation
in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute
eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes
the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress
occurring throughout the world, day after day. Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations
at the highest levels offer readers a master class in
international relations, as does her analysis of how we can
best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in
a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the
indispensable nation.
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