![]() ![]() “But it’s really abated a lot.” The pressure will return however, as the book is published and scrutinised, because it will be not just the painful episodes from Power’s youth that are being dissected, but also the decisions taken by the Obama administration that were at odds with her own beliefs and recommendations. “This period, after finishing the book, would be a perfect candidate,” she says. ![]() She doesn’t believe in neat ideas of “closure” – “There’s no moment where you just tie a bow around that stuff” – but she has noticed that since burrowing into her childhood, the demons have remained largely at bay. ![]() At 48, Power has now written a memoir, The Education of an Idealist, that charts not only her steep upward trajectory, but also her excavation of her Irish immigrant roots, where the clues to her bouts of breathlessness and pain lay hidden. The panic attacks persisted in the rare lulls during the hectic years of her stellar career that followed. That should have been a clue that something was a little bit amiss.” ![]() “I was like, what is wrong? I can’t breathe. “I had them in the summer of 1995 when there was a brief ceasefire,” she says. The symptoms would ambush her during the holidays, and later, while she was a freelance correspondent covering the Bosnian war, when the shelling stopped. ![]()
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