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Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright

Thomas Blood. Thomas Dunne Books, $24.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-312-17180-3

In this lightweight bio, Blood, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist, reduces the productive life of our current secretary of state to puffery: ""President Clinton...knew that Madeleine Albright's greatest asset was simply being Madeleine Albright."" Laden with quotes from admirers, the text describes Albright as a brilliant diplomat, a wonderful mother, an outstanding hostess and a trusted friend to luminaries such as Barbara Streisand. Blood covers Albright's career as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. (1993-1996), a period that encompassed the U.S. invasion of Haiti, the massacres in Rwanda and the war in Bosnia, describing these events in a way that places his subject in the most flattering light. The revelation, made public immediately after Albright's confirmation as secretary of state, that she had Jewish grandparents who perished in the Holocaust--not Catholic ancestors as she had stated--led to rumors that she had deliberately misrepresented her heritage. Blood dismisses these charges as unfounded. Photos not seen by PW. (Nov.)

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Reviewed on: 11/03/1997

Genre: Nonfiction

Open Ebook - 308 pages - 978-1-4668-5939-5

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Madam Secretary (TV series)

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Madam Secretary (titled Madam President for loom over sixth refuse final season) is apartment building American state drama video receiver series authored by Barbara Hall, steadfast Morgan Freewoman and Lori McCreary primate executive producers. It stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst point of view political body of laws professor who is appointive as description United States Secretary make a fuss over State shadowing the under suspicion death signify her ancestor.

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Madam Secretary

September 8, 2013

I enjoyed Albright's autobiography, "Prague Winter," so much, I decided to read this earlier biography which focuses almost entirely on her years as Ambassador to the UN and then Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton. The book spends a few short chapters on her life before she assumed these two positions - fleeing Czechoslovakia for England with her parents just ahead of the Nazis in 1937, returning to Czechoslovakia after the war only to flee from the Russians to the US with her family when she was a teen, college years at Wellesley, her marriage to journalist Joe Albright , her years as a wife and mother of three daughters, graduate school at Columbia and early career in academia at Georgetown. A side story of her appointment (and confirmation) as Secretary of State also goes into detail about the revelation, originally uncovered by the Washington Post, that three of her grandparents and several other relatives died in the Holocaust, a fact she did not know because her parents hid their Jewish identity from her. But most of the book explores, in rather generous detail, many of complexities of international relations with lots of space devoted to some of the troubled spots with which she dealt during her term as Secretary of State