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I like Nikki Haley and was eager to support her in a 2024 run for President, this book makes me less likely to do so. She very carefully tries to thread the needle by appealing to traditional conservatives while not alienating the Trump wing of the party. Her strategy is politically smart but lacks the courage she claims she demonstrated throughout the book. She repeatedly points to examples of where she calls out bad actors without fear; however, her criticisms of Trump were very superficial and all his missteps were excused as good intentions improperly communicated. There was enough hypocrisy evidenced that she came across as insincere. I think it relevant to point out that she was an Ambassador to the UN. I'm sorry but this is not a position like Secretary of State or the NSC....she is basically the press secretary at the UN and the president's mouthpiece. Her job was to communicate what the President's position is on a particular topic to a hostile audience. She did it well but she does not make policy. Her relationship with the President was fundamentally different than that of other cabinet members because her position would not put her in a position to disagree with the President. She made it appear like SHE was the driving force behind the policy rather than an exceptionally good bureaucrat who implemented and communicated it. On a final note, there was one part of the book that almost strains credibility and I have no idea why Haley would write it. She mentions going to refugee camps in Ethiopia on the border of South Sudan. She details the atrocities these people have faced. Then she writes: " In every camp we went to we asked the children if they had one wish, what would it be? In every case, they wished for an education." My BS meter went off the scale. She wrote that the South Sudanese regime uses food (and its denial) as a weapon of control, that boys are pressed into being child-soldiers, that women are raped, that the conditions in the refugee camps made the camps in Syria look good by comparison.....yet "EDUCATION" is what they wished for? Not food, security, a place to live? I literally became angry reading this as it was obviously untrue.