Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners， with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors。 How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60，000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives。
 
Ted Osius， former ambassador during the Obama administration， offers a vivid account， starting in the 1990s， of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible。 He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future， including senators John McCain and John Kerry， two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause， and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U。S。 ambassador to a new Vietnam。 Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance。 
 
With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry， Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world。