Madam Secretary

Author : Madeleine Albright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062265470

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Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright Pdf

“One of the most diverting political bios in recent memory.” -- Entertainment Weekly Revised and updated with a new epilogue, Madam Secretary is the moving and inspiring memoir of one of the most distinguished public figures in American history, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton’s two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO’s humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. In this thoughtful memoir, one of the most admired women in American history shares her remarkable story, including thoughts on her upbringing in Czechoslovakia and her role as a wife and mother, and provides an insider’s view on global affairs during this period of extraordinary turbulence. Madam Secretary offers an inimitable blend of Albright’s warm humor, personal recollection, and riveting insight on events that shaped our nation and our world.

Author : Thomas Blood
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466859395

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Madam Secretary by Thomas Blood Pdf

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, 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 Albright's life, identifying the periods that best open a window on the Secretary of State's 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 family's thrilling escape from Czechoslovakia to her astounding rise to power to her victories and setbacks as the head of American foreign policy, Madeleine Albright's life unfolds like a major motion picture. An immensely readable biography that illuminates key experiences in Albright's career and personal life, Madam Secretary introduces us to Madeleine Albright the person, the politician, the policymaker-- a woman for our times.

Author : Elisabeth P. Myers
Publisher : Julian Messner
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : CORNELL:31924061176784

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Madam Secretary by Elisabeth P. Myers Pdf

A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, the first woman to be appointed to the United States Cabinet.

Author : Jeremy Byman
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1931798346

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Madam Secretary by Jeremy Byman Pdf

The daughter of a Czechoslovakian diplomat, Madeleine Korbel grew up in the troubled Europe of World War II. Fleeing first Nazism then communism, the Korbels finally settled in the United States while Madeleine was still a child. She attended Wellesley College, married Joseph Albright, and raised three daughters. She also earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and became a foreign policy adviser to several American politicians. After serving President Bill Clinton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, she was appointed as the first female secretary of state. Since leaving that prestigious post, Madeleine Albright has continued to write, speak, and teach. She remains a committed advocate of democracy and a believer in the power we all have to shape our future into one worth embracing. Book jacket.

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780241186732

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The Road to Character by David Brooks Pdf

In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your CV, the skills that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They're what get talked about at your funeral and they are usually the virtues that exist at the core of your being - whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful, what kind of relationships you formed over your lifetime. In this urgent and soul-searching book, David Brooks explores the road to character. We live in a culture that encourages us to think about how to be wealthy and successful, but which leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the deepest inner life. We know that this deeper life matters, but it becomes subsumed by the day-to-day, and the deepest parts of who we are go unexplored and unstructured. The Road to Character connects us once again to an ancient moral tradition, a tradition that asks us to confront our own weaknesses and grow in response, rather than shallowly focus on our good points. It is a focus David Brooks believes all of us - including himself - need to reconnect with now. Telling the stories of people through history who have exemplified the different activities that contribute to a deeper existence, Brooks uses the diverse lives of individuals such as George Eliot, Dwight Eisenhower and Augustine to explore traits such as self-mastery, dignity, vocation and love. He hopes that through considering their lives it will fire the longing we all have to be better, to find the path to character. David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and frequent broadcaster. His previous books include the bestsellers The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise. His New York Times columns reach over 800,000 readers across the globe.

Author : Hal Brands
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813159324

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From Berlin to Baghdad by Hal Brands Pdf

On November 9, 1989, a mob of jubilant Berliners dismantled the wall that had divided their city for nearly forty years; this act of destruction anticipated the momentous demolition of the European communist system. Within two years, the nations of the former Eastern Bloc toppled their authoritarian regimes, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist, fading quietly into the shadows of twentieth century history and memory. By the end of 1991, the United States and other Western nations celebrated the demise of their most feared enemy and reveled in the ideological vindication of capitalism and liberal democracy. As author Hal Brands compellingly demonstrates, however, many American diplomats and politicians viewed the fall of the Soviet empire as a mixed blessing. For more than four decades, containment of communism provided the overriding goal of American foreign policy, allowing generations of political leaders to build domestic consensus on this steady, reliable foundation. From Berlin to Baghdad incisively dissects the numerous unsuccessful attempts to devise a new grand foreign policy strategy that could match the moral clarity and political efficacy of containment. Brands takes a fresh look at the key events and players in recent American history. In the 1990s, George H. W. Bush envisioned the United States as the guardian of a "new world order," and the Clinton administration sought the "enlargement" of America's political and economic influence. However, both presidents eventually came to accept, albeit grudgingly, that America's multifaceted roles, responsibilities, and objectives could not be reduced to a single fundamental principle. During the early years of the George W. Bush administration, it appeared that the tragedies of 9/11 and the subsequent "war on terror" would provide the organizing principle lacking in U.S. foreign policy since the containment of communism became an outdated notion. For a time, most Americans were united in support of Bush's foreign policies and the military incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq. As the swift invasions became grinding occupations, however, popular support for Bush's policies waned, and the rubric of the war on terror lost much of its political and rhetorical cachet. From Berlin to Baghdad charts the often onerous course of recent American foreign policy, from the triumph of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the tragedies of 9/11 and beyond, analyzing the nation's search for purpose in the face of the daunting complexities of the post--Cold War world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Budget
ISBN : PSU:000025004656

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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PURD:32754065299624

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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 1996 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget Pdf

Author : Peter L. Hahn
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574888195

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Crisis and Crossfire by Peter L. Hahn Pdf

Provides a concise and insightful introduction to the turbulent history of U.S.-Middle East relations

Author : Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317078487

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Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television by Betty Kaklamanidou,Margaret Tally Pdf

Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US politics, the role of government and the machinations and intrigue often associated with politicians and governmental institutions. The authors help to locate these representations both in the context of the history of earlier television shows that portrayed the political culture of Washington as well as within the current political culture transpiring both inside and outside of "The Beltway." With close attention to issues of gender, race and class and offering studies from contemporary quality television, including popular programmes such as The West Wing, Veep, House of Cards, The Americans, The Good Wife and Scandal, the authors examine the ways in which televisual representations reveal changing attitudes towards Washington culture, shedding light on the role of the media in framing the public’s changing perception of politics and politicians. Exploring the new era in which television finds itself, with new production practices and the possible emergence of a new ’political genre’ emerging, Politics and Politicians in Contemporary U.S. Television also considers the ’humanizing’ of political characters on television, asking what that representation of politicians as human beings says about the national political culture. A fascinating study that sits at the intersection of politics and television, this book will appeal to scholars of popular culture, sociology, cultural and media studies.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Community development
ISBN : SRLF:A0010849040

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Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B5155006

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A Review of U.S. Foreign Policy at the End of the Clinton Administration by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Houghton Mifflin Company,Webster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1542 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0395962145

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Webster's II New College Dictionary by Houghton Mifflin Company,Webster Pdf

Newly revised and updated, "Webster's II New College Dictionary" contains more than 200,000 definitions, including scientific, technology, and computer terms. 400 line drawings.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119534175

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Departments of Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies appropriations for 1981 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1446 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015036023870

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf