October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
14h 47m
English
Madeleine Korbel Albright is the first female Secretary of State in U.S. history and the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in the executive branch of government. The tough-talking, wisecracking, former Georgetown University professor sought the job and accepted it eagerly, making no pretense of reluctance and offering no sham modesty about her stellar credentials (Lippman 2000). In her reign as Secretary of State, “Last Word” Albright has an impressive list of powerful accomplishments: she forged an alliance that finally faced down Serb aggression in the Balkans and held it together during the war, and she did this without a total rupture with Moscow. At the same time, she kept the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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