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The Washington Post published a profile of the new secretary of state reporting that her parents had been Jews who converted to Catholicism and created a fictional past to protect their children from the Nazis.
奧爾布賴特女士在她一生的大部分時間裡都隱藏著一層家庭秘密，她作為一位傑出的世界事務分析師和白宮國家安全顧問獲得了權力和名望。 在比爾克林頓總統的領導下，她成為該國駐聯合國代表（1993-97 年）和國務卿（1997-2001 年），使她成為當時美國政府歷史上最高級別的女性。nyt/google
Besides her 2003 memoir, Ms. Albright wrote “The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs” (2006), “Memo to the President-Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership” (2008), “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box” (2009), and “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948” (2012).
除了她 2003 年的回憶錄，奧爾布賴特女士還寫了“有力者和全能者：對美國、上帝和世界事務的思考”（2006 年）、“給當選總統的備忘錄：我們如何恢復美國的聲譽和領導力”（2008 年）、 “閱讀我的別針：外交官珠寶盒中的故事”（2009 年）和“布拉格冬天：1937-1948 年的紀念與戰爭的個人故事”（2012 年）。
Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018)
Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84
She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton’s policies.
Madeleine Albright sees fascism not as an ideology, but as a strategy for seizing and consolidatingnFuture
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What is fascism?
An interview with Madeleine Albright
從難民到國務卿──歐布萊特回憶錄
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
類別： 史地‧法律‧政治>政治軍事Madam Secretary: A Memoir
叢書系列：歷史與現場
作者：麥德琳‧歐布萊特
Madeleine Albright
譯者：鍾玉玨
出版社：時報文化
出版日期：2004年
「我的好友馬奎斯在《百年孤寂》（One Hundred of Solitude）中，描寫陷入無可逃避的生命循環當中的人。我們不也是如此？
日升日落，四季輪替，命運之輪年復一年轉動，而軸心磨蝕，無可補救。人生在世，無法選擇要不要參與此一過程。
然而，這並不意味我們的選擇都沒意義。我始終相信，人應該奮力成就一己所能的事情：運用個人獨具的天賦、全心全意、滿懷歡欣去承受與實踐。
努力不保證會成功，但是努力本身卻是保持對生命的信念唯一的途徑。當大限來臨，我希望別人會說，歐布萊特盡力運用天賜的一切，努力榮耀家族、報效國家，堅定自由民主的立場，為年長女性揚眉吐氣，也讓年輕女子勇於表達自我。」 ──Madam Secretary by 歐布萊特Madeleine Albright
歐布萊特是美國第六十四任國務卿，更是美國歷史上位階最高的女性政治人物，柯林頓政府八年期間，從中東和平會談到北約人道介入科索沃戰爭，無役不與。他是原 籍捷克的猶太人，祖父母死於納粹集中營，為了逃離希特勒與共黨的迫害，於十一歲來到新大陸美國；能說流利的英、法、捷克、塞維亞-斯洛伐克語的她，擺脫難 民身分的困頓，在外交場域中迭有建樹，堪稱現代女性成功的典範。書中除了自剖其曲折坎坷、終至位極人臣的生涯，還生動描繪哈維爾、阿拉法特、夏隆、納堂雅 胡、胡笙國王、普丁、米洛塞維奇、金正日等國際政治首腦其人其事，當然更少不了風雨不斷的柯林頓夫婦。
The Book
Madam Secretary
by Madeleine Albright
"It was a quarter to ten. I was sipping coffee, but by then my body was manufacturing its own caffeine. I still couldn't allow myself to believe. Finally, at 9:47, the call came. 'I want you to be my Secretary of State.' These are his first words. I finally believed it."
For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Madeleine Albright was an active participant in the most dramatic events of recent times—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. Now, in an outspoken memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence.
The story begins with Albright's childhood as a Czechoslovak refugee, whose family first fled Hitler, then the Communists. Arriving in the United States at the age of eleven, she grew up to be a passionate advocate of civil and women's rights and followed a zigzag path to a career that ultimately placed her in the upper stratosphere of diplomacy and policy-making in her adopted country. She became the first woman to serve as America's secretary of state and one of the most admired individuals of our era.
Refreshingly candid, Madam Secretary brings to life the world leaders Albright dealt with face-to-face in her years of service and the battles she fought to prove her worth in a male-dominated arena. There are intriguing portraits of such leading figures as Vaclav Havel, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, King Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Slobodan Milosevic, and North Korea's mysterious Kim Jong-Il, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Jesse Helms.
Besides her encounters with the famous and powerful, we get to know Albright the private woman: her life raising three daughters, the painful breakup of her marriage to the scion of one of America's leading newspapers families, and the discovery late in life of her Jewish ancestry and that her grandparents had died in Nazi concentration camps.
Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record. It is a tapestry both intimate and panoramic, a rich memoir destined to become a twenty-first century classic.
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