Samantha Power Takes on the Job of a Lifetime as Ambassador to the U.N.- Vogue

Vogue: "It is a stakeout, her first as ambassador to the United Nations, and she is news herself—Samantha Power, human-rights celebrity and, at 43, the youngest American to ever hold the post. With a rustle of camera shutters and a blare of flash, Power exits the Security Council chamber and looks squarely at the press corps. “Good afternoon—it’s great to be here,” she says. A very brief pause follows, with an off-script eyebrow raise. It’s a small gesture, but to anyone who knows her or has followed her career—as the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide or as a foreign-affairs staffer to a certain young Illinois senator or even as a White House National Security Council member—it’s a typical Power move, a quick hit of charm in a high-stakes moment that says it really is great, even amazing, a dream come true."

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