Reviews for Madam Secretary

The average rating for Madam Secretary based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-01 00:00:00 jason manning Long book. :) Still I appreciated 3 things: - 1st is personal: never stop learning. No matter how tired, how busy or how bored you might be, train your mind. - 2nd is related to the way she wrote the book. The first 300 pages are quite easy to read because she outlines her personal life from the moment she was born until her divorce. From there on she concentrates on explaining the international context and the way she handled the different situations as a State Secretary. - 3rd comes from the 2nd point. So many names, so many contexts. I never got to really understand them until this book. I know the story is told from her perspective. Still for someone who is not initiated in international politics, it gives pretty good insight.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-08-14 00:00:00 Carmina Soto In 2012 I read Albright's "Prague Winter" (my favorite one so far). Then in 2018 I read her book on "Fascism A Warning". In April 2020 I read her most recent memoir entitled "Hell and Other Destructions" which covers the period after being Secretary of State to the current time. I had been examining the books she had written and realized I had not read her most important memoir of her time a Secretary of State. I have now corrected that over-site by reading "Madam Secretary: A memoir" published in 2003. The book is well written and meticulously researched. What I like about reading a memoir is learning about an event from their viewpoint. In fact, I enjoy reading about an event from various people's viewpoints, which means I read a lot of memoirs. Albright is tougher on herself than on other people. She admits her mistakes and states what she should have done or said with no excuses. Some people admit to no mistakes so this is refreshing. The book covers her early life to her divorce then her life working for the government. Most of the personal information is at the beginning of the book: her diplomacy role and policy viewpoints are in the later part of the book. She covers in-depth her period as Ambassador to the United Nations and as Secretary of State. I noted how helpful it was to her to have been at the United Nations before becoming Secretary of State. I highly recommend this book. I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is twenty-four hours and twenty-three minutes. Albright does a good job narrating her own book. It is great to hear it straight from the author.