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Blurb: “Whether billionaire or pauper, writes Madeleine Albright,
"we are all.... bound by time. While disease is a mugger, age is a cat burglar who steals but a single day each night; and the thief has learned patience. Medical advances have made it possible for us to function far longer than earlier generations... I think back to my final weeks as secretary of state and how I wished the clock hands would slow. In a sense, they have, and yet I am greedy for more. Sum up my life? Not yet; I am still counting. Until I am carried out, I will carry on."
sixty-three-year-old Madeleine
IN 2001, try the nerd er derine
as America's first female secretary of state. Rather than slow down, she launched a new career as an author, professor, businesswoman, speaker, and activist in support of democratic institutions and values. Turbocharged ever since, she has clashed with presidents and prime ministers, warned against the potential revival of Fascism, championed the cause of women everywhere, and labored relentlessly on behalf of people who lack the power to be heard themselves. A mother of three, Albright was thirty-nine when she landed her first professional job. "I had a late start, she says, "but once I found my voice, I was determined not to shut up.
Every stage of life should be more exciting than the last." In this often-rollicking account of her post-government
"afterlife," the former secretary of state shares personal stories while also telling us exactly what she thinks of the current void in world leadership, the danger of allowing lies to remain unanswered, and the debt owed by the old to the young. Albright, who describes herself as "an optimist who worries a lot" urges us to have faith in one another. "It is not our neighbors we should fear," she argues, "but rather those trying to drive us apart.
Hell and Other Destinations is at once a revealing chronicle of our times and a fascinating self-portrait of a woman whose boundless zest for life has led her to play drums on center stage at the Kennedy Center, dance in her living room with Robert Redford, and transform the pins she wears into a signature diplomatic tool. This is Madeleine Albright at her wisest, bluntest, wittiest, and most relevant.“