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Madeleine Albright: A twentieth-century odyssey
Madeleine Albright A twentiethcentury odyssey
Author: Michael Dobbs
The definitive biography of one of the most admired women in America. She was born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague just before the outbreak of World War II, the first child of Czech Jewish parents. Almost sixty years later Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of State, the first woman to hold the position. Here is the sto...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805056594
ISBN-10: 0805056599
Publication Date: 4/21/1999
Pages: 466
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Publisher: Henry Holt Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The first half of this book reveals the struggles of Madeleine's family in Europe just before WWII. Her family brought her to America and raised her and her sisters as Catholics. (She became an Episcopalian to marry Joseph Albright!) After her divorce, she raised 3 children alone. It's a tale of struggle for assimilation, of the destruction and sufferings of the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia. The second half of the book shows how she became the first woman Secretary of State - the position Hilary Clinton will hold in the Obama administration. I liked this book because it gave so much personal detail about the upbringing which led her to become a woman of great fame and respect. Lots of interesting pics, too.
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