Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; Signed by Author
Publisher: Miramax Books, 2003, New York
ISBN: 0786868430

[Book #18321]

First Trade Edition/First Printing (preceded by the privately printed Easton Press edition) in Very Fine condition in alike jacket, SIGNED by the author, US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright directly on the title page;

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