Samantha Power is a leading global voice on human rights and international affairs. She served as President Barack Obama’s human rights adviser and then in his Cabinet and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power’s books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘A Problem From Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide. She immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine.
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In her memoir Overcoming, Vicky Phelan shares her remarkable personal story, from a life-threatening accident in early adulthood through to motherhood, a battle with depression, her devastating later discovery that her cancer had returned in shocking circumstances – and the ensuing detective-like scrutiny of events that led the charge for her history-making legal action.
An inspiring story of rare resilience and power.
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