Surrender Is Not an Option

Defending America at the United Nations

By: John Bolton

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Paperback | 1 July 2008 | Edition Number 1

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With no-holds-barred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the US 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.

In this revealing memoir, John Bolton 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, the genocide in Darfur, the negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and 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. At home, he criticizes the bureaucratic inertia in the US State Department that can undermine presidential policy.

This fascinating chronicle of the career of one of America's outstanding statesmen who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad now contains a new afterword, "Challenges for the Next President."

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"Thoughtful and thought provoking...John can always be counted upon to provide a sharp and candid assessment of global issues." -- James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State

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Early Days	p. 1
The Reagan Revolution and the Bush 41 Thermidor	p. 18
Cutting Gulliver Loose: Protecting American Sovereignty in Good Deals and Bad	p. 47
Following the Yellow Cake Road on North Korea	p. 99
Leaving the Driving to the EU: Negotiations Uber Alles with Iran	p. 130
Why Do I Want This Job?	p. 165
Arriving at the UN: Fear and Loathing in New York	p. 194
Sisyphus in the Twilight Zone: Fixing the Broken Institution, or Trying To	p. 220
As Good as It Gets: The Security Council	p. 246
Electing the New Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon Is Coming to Town	p. 273
Security Council Successes on North Korea	p. 291
Iran in the Security Council: The EU-3 Find New Ways to Give In	p. 314
Darfur and the Weakness of UN Peacekeeping in Africa	p. 341
Israel and Lebanon: Surrender as a Matter of High Principle at the UN	p. 371
Recessional	p. 413
Free at Last: Back to the Firing Line	p. 429
Afterword: Challenges for the Next President	p. 457
Index	p. 475
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