Samantha Power ‘To fall flat in such a public way and to have no job ... I was a wandering person’
almost 6 years in The guardian
The former US ambassador to the UN on facing childhood demons, Obama’s failure in Syria and why she regrets calling Hillary Clinton a monster
Harvard Square in high summer is crisscrossed with tourists, but inside the university all is serene. Those academics who stay behind to work can enjoy the empty seminar rooms, loose deadlines and short queues at the cafeteria.
Samantha Power used to dread such periods of calm. The former US ambassador to the United Nations, and foreign policy and human rights adviser to Barack Obama, was afflicted for most of her adult life with intense anxiety attacks that left her unable to catch her breath, as well as inexplicable but excruciating back pain. She called them “lungers” – a term coined by a former boyfriend who witnessed her struggling to draw air into her lungs. Continue reading...
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