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Автор Samantha Power

THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST

Samantha Power

William Collins

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

Copyright © Samantha Power 2019

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Source ISBN: 9780008274900

Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780008274931

Version: 2019-08-28

For Cass, Declan, and Rían

CONTENTS

On a bright Saturday in September of 2013, I was sitting in a crowded diner in midtown Manhattan with my husband, Cass, and our kids, four-year-old Declan and one-year-old Rían.

My cell phone rang. The White House switchboard was on the line: “Ambassador Power, please hold for the President of the United States. ”