Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright

ISBN: 0312304692

Author: Blood, Thomas

Condition: New

Thomas Bloods Madame Secretary is a riveting biography of the first woman U. S. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, the ultimate independent woman (The New York Times Magazine).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, Washington D. C. insider 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 Albrights life, identifying the periods that best open a window on the Secretary of States 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 familys thrilling escape from Czechoslovakia to her astounding rise to power to her victories and setbacks as the head of American foreign policy, Madeleine Albrights life unfolds like a major motion picture.An immensely readable biography that illuminates key experiences in Albrights career and personal life, Madam Secretary introduces us to Madeleine Albright the person, the politician, the policymaker.