Madam Secretary by Madeleine K. Albright

Albright has received numerous honors for her contributions to diplomacy, democracy and world affairs, including honorary degrees from several universities, and in 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Madam Secretary (2003) and Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 (2012) are memoirs. For eight years, during Bill Clintons two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time-from the pursuit of. Albright wrote a number of books, including the policy primers The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs (2006) and Memo to the President Elect (2008). A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of Americas first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. A frequent columnist on foreign affairs issues, she served on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

She is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She left government service in 2001 and founded the Albright Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Albright worked with Havel on guiding his country into NATO and preparing the way for its entry into the European Union. Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel became close friends immediately after Havel’s election to the President’s office. The family returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II, but the Soviet-sponsored communist coup made them refugees again, and by 1948 they had settled in the United States. After the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, her family fled to England. She was the daughter of a Czech diplomat. Ambassador to the United Nations (1993–97) and who was the first woman to hold the cabinet post of U.S. Madeleine Albright, née Marie Jana Korbel, is a Czech-born American public official who served as U.S.

Madam Secretary by Madeleine K. Albright