Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright

Offers a look at the first woman to serve as this country's Secretary of State in her roles as diplomat, role model, and mother, drawing on interviews and anecdotes from friends, adversaries, and colleagues. Includes b&amp;w photos. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Biographies & Memoirs

Blood, Thomas

Community & Culture

St Martins Pr

No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing anecdotes from, politicians, friends, adversaries, and colleagues, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Senators Leahy, Mikulski, Kerrey, Helms, Reid, and Rockefeller, and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. This unique biography reveals the dramatic story of the first woman U.S. Secretary of State. Rather than providing a simple chronology, Blood focuses on the defining moments in Madeleine Albright's life, identifying the periods that best open a window on the Secretary of State's uncanny ability to triumph over adversity, her unparalleled success in politics and her meteoric rise to dominance in the world of foreign policy. From her family's thrilling escape from Czechoslovakia to her astounding rise to power to her victories and setbacks as the head of American foreign policy, Madeleine Albright's life unfolds like a major motion picture. An immensely readable biogrpahy that illuminates key experiences in Albright's career and personal life, Madam Secretary introduces us to Madeleine Albright the person, the politician, the policymaker-- a woman for our times.

Leaders & Notable People

St. Martin's: Griffin

No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing anecdotes from, politicians, friends, adversaries, and colleagues, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Senators Leahy, Mikulski, Kerrey, Helms, Reid, and Rockefeller, and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.This unique biography reveals the dramatic story of the first woman U.S. Secretary of State. Rather than providing a simple chronology, Blood focuses on the defining moments in Madeleine Albright's life, identifying the periods that best open a window on the Secretary of State's uncanny ability to triumph over adversity, her unparalleled success in politics and her meteoric rise to dominance in the world of foreign policy.From her family's thrilling escape from Czechoslovakia to her astounding rise to power to her victories and setbacks as the head of American foreign policy, Madeleine Albright's life unfolds like a major motion picture. An immensely readable biogrpahy that illuminates key experiences in Albright's career and personal life, Madam Secretary introduces us to Madeleine Albright the person, the politician, the policymaker-- a woman for our times.

With the Russian economy in shambles, and hard-line leaders in power, renegade KGB operatives steal the classified dossier on the Kremlin's most carefully guarded operation, known as the Red Locust file. This ultra-secret document details the exact locations of over one hundred tactical nuclear weapons, or suitcase bombs, secretly placed in the U.S. during the height of the cold war. Thousands of miles away, in Washington D.C., in the final weeks of the presidential election, a young prostitute is found brutally murdered in a luxury hotel. The only clue-a single cufflink bearing the seal of the President of the United States. These seemingly unrelated events will soon reveal not only a sinister connection but a twisting trail of conspiracy and espionage, power brokers and assassins. It's a trail that leads from mainland China to the seamy underbelly of the Washington power-structure...to the Oval Office itself.

China Card

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Leisure Books

Reviews the campaign promises and performance of President Clinton over his four years in office

State of the Union: A Report on President Clinton's First Four Years in Office

History

HENDERSON, BRUCE

Americas

General Pub Group

Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader's Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud

Business & Money

ALLEN, JONATHAN

Processes & Infrastructure

Independently published

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