With no-holds-barred candor, the straight-talking former ambassador to the United Nations takes readers behind the scenes at the UN and the U.S. State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. A veteran of three Republican administrations and a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Bolton shows 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.The son of a Baltimore firefighter and the first person in his family to go to college, with scholarships to Yale University and Yale Law School, John Bolton studied with preeminent conservative thinkers Robert Bork and Ralph Winter. After law school, he experienced the "Reagan Revolution" firsthand in Edwin Meese's justice department -- where the American judiciary was fundamentally reshaped. His diplomatic skills were honed working with Secretary of State James Baker during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and serving in the administration of President George W. Bush as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.In this revealing memoir, he candidly recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, which resulted in his recess appointment, 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 monthlong negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and more. Recounting 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 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 who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad,Surrender Is Not an Optionis the candid memoir of one of America's outstanding statesmen that is sure to become required reading for everyone interested in international affairs. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Chapter 1 Early Days	p. 1
Chapter 2 The Reagan Revolution and the Bush 41 Thermidor	p. 18
Chapter 3 Cutting Gulliver Loose: Protecting American Sovereignty in Good Deals and Bad	p. 47
Chapter 4 Following the Yellow Cake Road on North Korea	p. 99
Chapter 5 Leaving the Driving to the EU: Negotiations Uber Alles with Iran	p. 130
Chapter 6 Why Do I Want This Job?	p. 165
Chapter 7 Arriving at the UN: Fear and Loathing in New York	p. 194
Chapter 8 Sisyphus in the Twilight Zone: Fixing the Broken Institution, or Trying To	p. 220
Chapter 9 As Good as It Gets: The Security Council	p. 246
Chapter 10 Electing the New Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon Is Coming to Town	p. 273
Chapter 11 Security Council Successes on North Korea	p. 291
Chapter 12 Iran in the Security Council: The EU-3 Find New Ways to Give In	p. 314
Chapter 13 Darfur and the Weakness of UN Peacekeeping in Africa	p. 341
Chapter 14 Israel and Lebanon: Surrender as a Matter of High Principle at the UN	p. 371
Chapter 15 Recessional	p. 413
Chapter 16 Free at Last: Back to the Firing Line	p. 429
Index	p. 437

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