Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #71: The Mighty & The Almighty
Madeleine Albright has long been one of my favorites. Her story is a fascinating one. Born in 1937 in a sovereign Czechoslovakia, her father was a diplomat who became part of the country's London-based government-in-exile during WWII. They returned home after the war, only to find Eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke. Her father, a staunch anti-communist, sent the family to the US in 1948 when Madeleine was 11. Albright (then Korbel, her maiden name) graduated from We