Former Barack Obama foreign policy aide Samantha Power became a household name when The Scotsman printed her not-so-off-the-record thoughts on Hillary Clinton – that she's "a monster" – and she forcibly resigned, but in fact, she's been a figure in elite cultural circles for much of her life. There was the Pulitzer-prize winning book on governments hiding from massacres, her supposed love triangle with a then-married law professor at U-Chicago, her tenure as a professor herself at Harvard, and the well-regarded reporting assignments from Bosnia and Rwanda. So when you join her for a date on her book tour – which she decided to continue, despite, or in part because of, the press attention – please be sure to honor her achievements by asking that she make out a signed copy to "That Monster, who stole my hopes of ever having a cabinet seat."