Download Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad AudioBook Free
With no-holds-barred candor, the former ambassador to the US takes readers behind the scenes at the UN and the U.S. STATE DEPT. and reveals why his efforts to guard American interests and reform the UN led to controversy. He also shows how the U.S. can lead the best way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies another generation of threats to America.
Within this revealing memoir, John Bolton recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the US, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, and his sixteen-month tenure at the US. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the genocide in Darfur, the negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and even more. Chronicling both his successes and frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the UN's effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. In the home, he criticizes the bureaucratic inertia in the U.S. STATE DEPT. that can undermine presidential policy.
This fascinating chronicle of the career of one of America's outstanding statesmen who may have fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad now contains a new afterword, "Challenges for the Next President."
