Albright, Madeleine Korbel

"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright . . . reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing . . . memoir"--Provided by publisher.

"Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants--reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir"--Provided by publisher.

"The former U.S. secretary of state presents a . . . look at the history and current resurgence of fascism and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace"--OCLC.

"The former U.S. secretary of state presents a . . . look at the history and current resurgence of fascism and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace"--OCLC.

Madeleine Albright served as America's sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and she was part of the generation that lived through World War II. Before she was twelve, her native country, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by the Nazis. As her family fled, Madeleine experienced terror, the art of survival, and the bomb shelters of London. Many decades after the war she found out about her family's Jewish heritage.

Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright tells her life story, discussing her childhood, her adventures in parenthood and grandparenthood, her foreign policy experiences and peacekeeping efforts, and the Clinton and post-Clinton years.