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The New York Times Book Review: Jacob Heilbrunn Blackman, who writes with economy and dispatch, has combed the archives and conducted almost 200 interviews with Albright's friends and associates, including President Clinton. Her spadework has paid off. Albright emerges as someone who has again and again reinvented herself.

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A refugee from the Nazi invasion of her native Czechoslovakia as well as from its subsequent Communist takeover after World War II, Albright is, in this condensed account, believably presented as a bright, ambitious, and very capable woman: an outstanding person to become the first female Secretary of State. Black-and-white photographs and a chronology are included


 

Madam Secretary : The Biography of Madeleine Albright

In an intimate and revealing portrait of an American hero, political veteran Thomas Blood takes readers behind the scenes, providing exclusive interviews and anecdotes from the likes of various senators, longtime friends, adversaries, and colleagues, including former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.


Lech Walesa : Democrat or Dictator?

See Lech Walesa's Speach At Colby College


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