PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewRice is clinical in her retelling of the foreign policy decisions of the Clinton and Obama administrations. And there is no attempt to neatly sew together an overarching narrative about her approach to foreign policy challenges based on her years of experience in government. In fact, that may be the lesson of her tale of \'tough love.\' Public policy, Rice argues, is pragmatic, and sometimes a little dark: \'We did fail, we will fail. Our aim must be to minimize the frequency and the price of failure\' ... Rice deserves credit for unsparingly owning up to her reputation as a difficult boss.
