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Tough love my story of the things worth fighting for

Mother, wife, scholar, diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan Rice connects the personal and the professional. Taught early, with tough love, how to compete and excel as an African American woman in settings where people of color are few, Susan now shares the wisdom sh...

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Main Author: Rice, Susan E. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : 37 INK ; Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Rice, Susan E.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Ambassadors > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American women diplomats > Biography.
African American women politicians > Biography.
Women diplomats > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Staff > Biography.
United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017.
United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001.
United States > Foreign relations > 1993-2001.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Farewell to the moral universe
  • Service in my soul
  • Coming up
  • Growing up too soon
  • Twice as good
  • Go west, young woman
  • Busting out
  • Rookie season
  • Always Africa
  • Storming state
  • "I remember when I too was a young assistant secretary"
  • Going global
  • Represent
  • High-stakes diplomacy
  • The Arab Spring comes to New York
  • Star Wars cantina
  • Benghazi
  • Running the table
  • The furies
  • Point guard
  • Putting points on the board
  • The fourth quarter
  • "He f#%@ing won?"
  • Bridging the divide.

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