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English
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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...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
24 sound discs (28 hr., 27 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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"From one of the world's most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government"-- Cover verso.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xiii, 670 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
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Español
Description
Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.
Reflexiones sinceras de Hillary Clinton sobre los momentos clave durante su tiempo como Secretario de Estado, así como sus ideas sobre cómo navegar por los desafíos del siglo 21.
6) Hard choices
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English
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Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.
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Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Klein uncovers the real story behind Hillary Clinton's email scandals and the dirty political games that have kept her one step ahead of the law-- for now.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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The man who led the intelligence war that killed Osama bin Laden traces a life of leadership in public service, from his tenure in Congress through his years as director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Leaving office in 2001 as America's first female Secretary of State, Albright considered the possibilities: she could write, teach, travel, give speeches, start a business, fight for democracy, help to empower women, campaign for favored political candidates, spend more time with her grandchildren. Instead of choosing one or two, she decided to do it all. Her memoir of the past twenty years is a haze of constant motion: navigating half a dozen professions,...
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English
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"The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle Hillary Clinton's surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful and influential...
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
14) It shouldn't be this hard to serve your country: our broken government and the plight of veterans
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House."--
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English
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"From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown...
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Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former vice president of the United States reflects on his influential tenure in a memoir which also includes details from his personal life.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
618 pages, 30 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Language
English
Description
"Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history--a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in...
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Language
English
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Drawn from exclusive documents and detailed interviews with their close friends, allies and enemies, an investigative reporter reveals the strategies and deals the Clintons made to turn their political fortunes around and to lay the groundwork for the upcoming presidential campaign.
In 2001, Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House under a cloud, dogged by scandals and investigations. Even many Democrats were glad to see them go. Yet within...
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English
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"In Laughing at Myself, Dan Glickman-a Jewish kid from Wichita, Kansas, descended from Russian and Eastern European immigrants-tells the story of his life in public service as a principled moderate driven by the values of pragmatism and civility. After leaving the Republican Party in 1974, he represented the 4th Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in the US House of Representatives for eighteen years. He went on to become the US Secretary...
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