Hillary Rodham Clintons inside account of the crises, choices and challenges she faced during her four years as Americas 67th Secretary of State and how those experiences drive her view of the future. 'All of us face hard choices in our lives, II Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. 'Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.' In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the democratic party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea and revolutions across the middle east. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harms way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. About the AuthorHillary Rodham Clinton served as the US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 after nearly four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, first lady and Senator. She is the author of several best selling books, including her memoir, living History and her ground breaking work on children, it takes a village.