Samantha Power has been many things: an activist, a war correspondent, an author and a policymaker.
She served on President Obama's National Security Council, and later, she was his ambassador to the United Nations.
In her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, she describes how she went from working outside the system – as a fierce and idealistic defender of human rights — to moving inside, as a diplomat who must, above all else, be ... diplomatic.
Interview Highlights
On her sense of danger and risk
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