Ambassador Susan rice

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & 

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

Recalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines  of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice—National  Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to the  United Nations—reveals her surprising story with unflinching candor in  this New York Times bestseller.

Mother, wife, scholar,  diplomat, and fierce champion of American interests and values, Susan  Rice powerfully 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 she learned along the way.
 

Laying bare the family  struggles that shaped her early life in Washington, DC, she also  examines the ancestral legacies that influenced her. Rice’s  elders—immigrants on one side and descendants of slaves on the other—had  high expectations that each generation would rise. And rise they did,  but not without paying it forward—in uniform and in the pulpit, as  educators, community leaders, and public servants.
 

Susan too  rose rapidly. She served throughout the Clinton administration, becoming  one of the nation’s youngest assistant secretaries of state and, later,  one of President Obama’s most trusted advisors.
 

Rice provides  an insider’s account of some of the most complex issues confronting the  United States over three decades, ranging from “Black Hawk Down” in  Somalia to the genocide in Rwanda and the East Africa embassy bombings  in the late 1990s, and from conflicts in Libya and Syria to the Ebola  epidemic, a secret channel to Iran, and the opening to Cuba during the  Obama years. With unmatched insight and characteristic bluntness, she  reveals previously untold stories behind recent national security  challenges, including confrontations with Russia and China, the war  against ISIS, the struggle to contain the fallout from Edward Snowden’s  NSA leaks, the U.S. response to Russian interference in the 2016  election, and the surreal transition to the Trump administration.
 

Although you might think you know Susan Rice—whose name became  synonymous with Benghazi following her Sunday news show appearances  after the deadly 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya—now, through these  pages, you truly will know her for the first time. Often  miss-characterized by both political opponents and champions, Rice emerges  as neither a villain nor a victim, but a strong, resilient,  compassionate leader.
 

Intimate, sometimes humorous, but always candid, Tough Love makes an urgent appeal to the American public to bridge our dangerous  domestic divides in order to preserve our democracy and sustain our  global leadership.