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#1 I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1939. When I was eleven, my family escaped to the United States, where I became a typical American teenager. I ditched my European accent, read stacks of comic books, and glued my ear to a transistor radio.
#2 I was a professor of Eastern Europe, and in 1989 I watched as the decade-long demands of dockworkers and the inspiration of...
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From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War.
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In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America's first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. "I don't want to be remembered," she answered. "I am still here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." In that time of transition, the former Secretary considered the possibilities: she could write, teach,...
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