Then her mother, Vera, took her and a younger brother to live in the United States, a move that was to be permanent. Power, currently a professor of global leadership and public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, was born in London and lived in Dublin until she was nine. But as Power has had a catastrophic experience in the past being interviewed – about which more later – perhaps it’s her way of attempting to exercise some control over the process.
What it comes down to, of course, is trust between interviewee and interviewer. But as every writer and journalist and publicist must know, it’s pointless putting this kind of interview clause in, as it would be so easy to lie or bluff or just read a bit of the book. Writers who have sometimes spent years writing their books want them to be read.
She wants to respect your deadlines, but also wants you to have time to really dive into the book!” “She is happy to postpone the interview by a day or two. This is followed up by two emails from Power’s secretary at Harvard, where she teaches, asking how I am getting on with the (550-page) memoir. SHE TALKS ABOUT HER TRAUMATIC CHILDHOOD, DONALD TRUMP AND WHETHER SHE REALLY CALLED HILLARY CLINTON A MONSTERīefore my telephone interview with Samantha Power, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, her publicist tells me that Power has asked that all interviewers read her new book in advance. SAMANTHA POWER’S NEW MEMOIR TRACES HER JOURNEY FROM IRISH IMMIGRANT TO WAR CORRESPONDENT TO US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN.