Want to make a difference? Samantha Power's autobiography should be required reading.

In this special episode, recorded live for C-SPAN2/BookTV at the Texas Book Festival in October, former U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power discusses her bold, humane, and incredibly personal autobiography, The Education of an Idealist (Dey Street/HarperCollins), with editor-at-large Megan Labrise.

Power was born in Ireland, and immigrated to the United States at age 9. She began her career as a journalist—a war correspondent, reporting from Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—and became an activist and author. Her first book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic), won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. She served beside President Barack Obama on the National Security Council and, later, as the United States’ 28th Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

With humor and conviction, Power shares personal stories about her childhood in Ireland, what it was like to adjust to life in the United States, and the arc of her remarkable career. Then she fields some questions from the audience.

Finally, children’s editor Vicky Smith, YA editor Laura Simeon, nonfiction editor Eric Liebetrau, and fiction editor Laurie Muchnick join with their reading recommendations for the week.

Editors’ picks:

Allies by Alan Gratz (Scholastic)

Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love, edited by Sangu Mandanna (Soho Teen)

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow (Little, Brown)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Avon/HarperCollins)

Fully Booked is produced by Cabel Adkins Audio and Megan Labrise.