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Summary: pls no more shadings
Review: this book is an injustice to the reader,because it is simply not telling the truth. for example the author states that the clinton adminstation was heavily montoring al queda and was doing everything it could to stop Bin Laden. then the author should tell us that pres. clinton met only twice with his original cia director. we now have more information coming out. i am afraid this book like others in the adminstration will be shown to spend so little time in foreign affairs. i do believe that the author is an outstanding person of character but please stop covering up for a president interested in domestic affairs. he will be remembered for not stopping bin laden when he could have.
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Summary: More Revisionist History from Clinton Admin. Left Overs
Review: This book is more revisionist history from a woman who danced with dictators, appeased war criminals and spoke angrily and bitterly (in French, no doubt) about the United States and its president while on foreign soil. Unfortunately, her best conspiracy theory isn't included herein--that is, her theory that Bush has Osama and is waiting to reveal him at a politically opportune time. Sorry Madeline, you had your chance and you appeased the terrorists. It's time to retire to academia or the speaker circuit espousing your failed policies. This book is a great head start.Isn't it wonderful, how this country afforded her so much as a former Czech refugee? Isn't it terrible how she ends up "biting the hand that fed her" for so many years? Madeline Albright was a miserable failure as secretary of state and is an embarassment to this country. Save your money unless of course you enjoy reading well-written revisionist fiction. Pure spin.
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Summary: a remarkably frank book
Review: This is a book about a remarkable woman. She is the first woman to become Secretary of State-- an amazing feat in itself, but she arrived here as an immigrant at age 14, learned "American," and figured out our political system sufficiently to be tapped for United Nations Secretary and Secretary of State. It's interesting that her boss, President Clinton, also got elected without great sums of money or influential family behind him.
Madeleine chronicles three important stages in her life: her childhood, her marriage and ending with her tenure as Secretary of State. We are treated to the intimacy of a friendship between M. and Vaclav Havel; how she felt about her husband when she first met him and the devastation wreaked by their divorce; and her encounters with several leaders of the world, most notably: Arafat, King Hussein and Queen Noor, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Milosevic.
I enjoyed reading M.'s rejoinders to the leaders of the world when they tried to buffalo her. She patiently waited Milosevic out as he played his terribly cruel game with the Serbian and Bosnian people. Finally he overreached himself and called for national elections. He lost! M., who spoke Serbian, monitored the runoff. Milosevic could not believe the results and refused to give way. The Russians wre unwilling to recognize the results either (Milosevic's brother was ambassador to Russia.) M., who also spoke Russian, was in constant touch with Foreign Minister Ivanov. "You've got to tell Milosevic to give up," she told him. "Your own credibility with the Serbs depends on it."
I found myself cheering at the attainments of this wonderful woman. This is an important book and key to anyone's understanding of our political system and how diplomacy works--or doesn't work.
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Summary: Just a great lovely account
Review: This is almost as good as Mrs. clintons book 'witness to Bills cheating or whatever it was called. This book details how our greatest secretary of state since Colin Powell betrayed the serbs and helped to murder more then 5000 innocent civilians. Inside this book you will find the following exciting accounts:
1) How Albright was offended by her critics calling her 'halfbright'.
2) How albright was the 'daughter of munich' and the sympahty sourounding this helped her get ahead.
3)How Albright was helpful in giving Serbia no options so that she could flex American muscle and bomb civilians.
4) How albright decided that Osama wasnt a big enough threat to put american resources into finding and gave up on capturing him in the Sudan.
5) How Albright helped the Koreans secure lasting peace in Korea so the North could continue a nuclear weapons program. These are among the other great revelations in this excellent book on how American foreign policy should allways be conducted so that we will one day be ruled by a Chinamen who is devoted to Islam.
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Summary: No Boring Parts
Review: This is an unusual political memoir. There are few long explanations of diplomatic and bureaucratic ins and outs. Albright focuses mainly on personalities, her family life, behind-the-scenes stories, and the Big Picture. In other words, she condenses all the parts I would have skipped anyway. Albright's enthusiasm is evident throughout. She doesn't downplay her excitement at being appointed Ambassador to the U.N. and Secretary of State. She obviously wishes she still were Madam Secretary. She shows us a different side of world leaders. Hear Igor Ivanov, Russian foreign minister, singing in a revue; watch Albright cause Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to have an apoplectic fit. She talks about juggling day-to-day concerns with conducting world diplomacy (the big hats were for bad hair days). One of the best chapters is about her spur-of-the-moment trip to Poland, just as the Solidarity uprising was about to explode. A fascinating book, a brilliant career, and a remarkable woman.
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Summary: a failed Secretary of State
Review: This woman is a total idiot. Remember North Korea? I wouldn't let her negotiate a second hand shoe bargain for me in a flea market.
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Summary: Interesting read
Review: Very interesting. Shows the inside workings of top decision makers, insights to her travels and experiences, and mixes the professional with the personal. Alos good is the detail provided behind the peace process for the mid east and the Balkans. Her personal insights make the material personable.
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Summary: Madam Secretary - Fortunate America
Review: Witty, bright, insightful, wise, intuitive, multi-lingual - This Memoir serves as a superb insight to the workings, the details, the trials and tribulations of the U.S. State Department under Bill Clinton's second term. It becomes apparent that the two of them are on the "same page" - but Secretary Albright was no "lackey". She pulls no punches in her Memoir - admitting to failures, misjudgments - while at the same time highlighting the successes which far outnumbered the shortcomings. Bill Clinton, and, indeed, all of America owes this brilliant statesperson, daughter of the Holocaust, a debt of great respect and honor for her service to this nation. Great Memoir!
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