Surrender Is Not an Option or Kofi Annan

Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad

Author: John R Bolton

The Straight-Talking Former Ambassador Takes Listeners Behind the Scenes at the State Department and the U.N.

A veteran of three Republican administrations and a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, John Bolton reveals how the U.S. can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America.

With no-holds-barred candor, he recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, and his sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and much more. Recounting both his successes and frustrations he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the U.N.'s effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. At home, he criticizes the pernicious bureaucratic inertia in the U.S. State Department that can undermine presidential policy.

A fascinating chronicle of the career of a distinguished lawyer and diplomat, Surrender Is Not An Option is sure to become a staple for everyone interested in international affairs.

Table of Contents:

Early Days     1
The Reagan Revolution and the Bush 41 Thermidor     18
Cutting Gulliver Loose: Protecting American Sovereignty in Good Deals and Bad     47
Following the Yellow Cake Road on North Korea     99
Leaving the Driving to the EU: Negotiations Uber Alles with Iran     130
Why Do I Want This Job?     165
Arriving at the UN: Fear and Loathing in New York     194
Sisyphus in the Twilight Zone: Fixing the Broken Institution, or Trying To     220
As Good as It Gets: The Security Council     246
Electing the New Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon Is Coming to Town     273
Security Council Successes on North Korea     291
Iran in the Security Council: The EU-3 Find New Ways to Give In     314
Darfur and the Weakness of UN Peacekeeping in Africa     341
Israel and Lebanon: Surrender as a Matter of High Principle at the UN     371
Recessional     413
Free at Last: Back to the Firing Line     429
Index     437

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Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War

Author: Stanley Meisler

"Absorbing."
—Booklist

"Comprehensive and well written. . . . Anyone genuinely interested in the affairs of this all-important world body, ultimate guarantor of peace and stability, should definitely read it."
—The Irish Times

"Stanley Meisler has made the U.N. story come alive as a flesh-and-blood drama of outsized egos clashing over high-stakes issues."
—Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief, Los Angeles Times

Rarely does a prominent world figure cooperate with a biographer who offers no say over the book's contents, no prepublication examination of the manuscript, and no guarantee that the final product will present its subject in a positive light. In Kofi Annan, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Annan's unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world's crises.

Kofi Annan presents a unique portrait of this widely admired leader—with his own view of events tempered and augmented by those of his allies and opponents, defenders and detractors. It is a must-read for anyone interested in diplomacy, international affairs, war and peace, and the daunting task of saving the world from the ravages of war.