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Article: SEASON'S OF HER LIFE: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- January 1, 1999
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SEASONS OF HER LIFE: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright by Ann Blackman Scribner, $27
Possibly the only thing one needs to know about Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright is that she was Zbigniew Brzezinski's favorite grad student. But Time magazine correspondent Ann Blackman provides far more in this detailed biography. There is much about Czechoslovakia before, during, and after World War II; foreign policy luminaries of the Democratic Party; the ever-evolving roles of Washington society wives (and ex wives); the never-ending question of authentic Jewish identity; and other morasses that Albright somehow navigated on her way to the top.
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