“Whether they sincerely believed they were doing the right thing or just pushing their personal agendas, these people were dangerous,” writes Haley. Her memoir generated plenty of pre-publication publicity for its accounts of her skirmishes with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and her allegation that he and John Kelly had attempted to enlist her in a conspiracy to circumvent the president’s policies.

post on good terms. If others had problems with this president, she suggests it was their fault. A memoir suggesting that if there are problems within the Trump administration, the problem is not Trump.Īs a tea party candidate who became governor of South Carolina, Haley ( Can’t Is Not an Option: My American Story, 2012) first established herself as a political star on the rise-young, female, and minority, all areas where the Republican Party had been perceived as weakest. With the election of Trump, she was recruited to become the United Nations ambassador, though her governorship hadn’t involved any foreign diplomacy, nor did her straight-shooting demeanor as a self-described “badass” suggest a diplomatic personality, nor had she supported Trump during the primary campaign. Thus, the most remarkable part of this memoir, in contrast to the onslaught of Trump exposés, is her account of how well she worked with the president, how they established a relationship based on mutual respect and trust, how she was able to disagree with him without drawing his ire, and how she was able to leave her U.N.

All due respect