3.5/5

A detailed and vivid account of Samantha Power's journey as a child immigrant, a war correspondent, and a representative of America in the United Nations.

I come out of this book having learned that the government/UN is not an entity, but a building in which individuals come together and engage with complex decisions quite unlikely to be ideal to all. As such, changing the world is not accomplished by one grandeur act, but by doing good in individual events and enacting change in ways within one's reach.

The writing is blunt and very detailed, but I found that the strength of the storytelling waned as the pages went on. There were parts of the book that deeply engaged me, but others were difficult to get through. This inconsistency is my only concern. Aside from that, the content of the book was informative and positively calls for further introspection from the readers.