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Author:
Marie Yovanovitch
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
March 15, 2022
A memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraineâa diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.
What The Reviewers Say
A subtle and engaging memoir.
Absorbing.
[Yovanovitch's] memoir, Lessons From the Edge, is a front row seat to the disinformation campaign that ultimately saw her removed from her last overseas post: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Lessons From the Edge is an exemplary diplomatic memoir, exhibiting a real gift for storytelling despite Yovanovitch’s straight-arrow personality. Not for her the self-delusion and moral equivocation that make Shakespearean characters out of such Trump World veterans as William Barr.
