Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider's View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People

Unreliable Boyfriend is a book that only Chrystia Freeland could write - about a globe-trotting journalist who covered oligarchs and then became a political leader; what she learned about power, international relations and global trade from her years in government; and how the United States can be seen in revelatory ways through the eyes of a Canadian who had to deal with American chaos. Unreliable Boyfriend is a different kind of political memoir: a candid, deeply personal account of power, politics and globalisation from an unlikely insider - a 5-foot-1 journalist turned Deputy Prime Minister who now turns her reportorial eye on her own life, her battles with authoritarians and plutocrats and the fragile future of liberal democracy. Before rising to the heights of Canadian politics, Chrystia Freeland was one of the first Western reporters to chronicle the rise of the Russian oligarchs in the 1990s.She spent decades reporting from Moscow, Kyiv, Washington, Beijing and beyond, exposing