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Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018) 歐布萊特回憶錄：從難民到國務卿
Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018) 歐布萊特回憶錄：從難民到國務卿
Besides her 2003 memoir, Ms. Albright wrote “The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs” (2006), “Memo to the President-Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership” (2008), “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box” (2009), and “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948” (2012).
除了她 2003 年的回憶錄，奧爾布賴特女士還寫了“有力者和全能者：對美國、上帝和世界事務的思考”（2006 年）、“給當選總統的備忘錄：我們如何恢復美國的聲譽和領導力”（2008 年）、 “閱讀我的別針：外交官珠寶盒中的故事”（2009 年）和“布拉格冬天：1937-1948 年的紀念與戰爭的個人故事”（2012 年）。
奧爾布賴特女士在她一生的大部分時間裡都隱藏著一層家庭秘密，她作為一位傑出的世界事務分析師和白宮國家安全顧問獲得了權力和名望。 在比爾克林頓總統的領導下，她成為該國駐聯合國代表（1993-97 年）和國務卿（1997-2001 年），使她成為當時美國政府歷史上最高級別的女性。nyt/google
Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84
She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton’s policies.
Madeleine Albright sees fascism not as an ideology, but as a strategy for seizing and consolidatingnFuture
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What is fascism?
An interview with Madeleine Albright
從難民到國務卿──歐布萊特回憶錄
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
類別： 史地‧法律‧政治>政治軍事Madam Secretary: A Memoir
叢書系列：歷史與現場
作者：麥德琳‧歐布萊特
Madeleine Albright
譯者：鍾玉玨
出版社：時報文化
出版日期：2004年
「我的好友馬奎斯在《百年孤寂》（One Hundred of Solitude）中，描寫陷入無可逃避的生命循環當中的人。我們不也是如此？
日升日落，四季輪替，命運之輪年復一年轉動，而軸心磨蝕，無可補救。人生在世，無法選擇要不要參與此一過程。
然而，這並不意味我們的選擇都沒意義。我始終相信，人應該奮力成就一己所能的事情：運用個人獨具的天賦、全心全意、滿懷歡欣去承受與實踐。
努力不保證會成功，但是努力本身卻是保持對生命的信念唯一的途徑。當大限來臨，我希望別人會說，歐布萊特盡力運用天賜的一切，努力榮耀家族、報效國家，堅定自由民主的立場，為年長女性揚眉吐氣，也讓年輕女子勇於表達自我。」 ──Madam Secretary by 歐布萊特Madeleine Albright
歐布萊特是美國第六十四任國務卿，更是美國歷史上位階最高的女性政治人物，柯林頓政府八年期間，從中東和平會談到北約人道介入科索沃戰爭，無役不與。他是原 籍捷克的猶太人，祖父母死於納粹集中營，為了逃離希特勒與共黨的迫害，於十一歲來到新大陸美國；能說流利的英、法、捷克、塞維亞-斯洛伐克語的她，擺脫難 民身分的困頓，在外交場域中迭有建樹，堪稱現代女性成功的典範。書中除了自剖其曲折坎坷、終至位極人臣的生涯，還生動描繪哈維爾、阿拉法特、夏隆、納堂雅 胡、胡笙國王、普丁、米洛塞維奇、金正日等國際政治首腦其人其事，當然更少不了風雨不斷的柯林頓夫婦。
The Book
Madam Secretary
by Madeleine Albright
"It was a quarter to ten. I was sipping coffee, but by then my body was manufacturing its own caffeine. I still couldn't allow myself to believe. Finally, at 9:47, the call came. 'I want you to be my Secretary of State.' These are his first words. I finally believed it."
For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Madeleine Albright was an active participant in the most dramatic events of recent times—from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATO's humanitarian intervention in Kosovo. Now, in an outspoken memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence.
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.
Refreshingly candid, Madam Secretary brings to life the world leaders Albright dealt with face-to-face in her years of service and the battles she fought to prove her worth in a male-dominated arena. There are intriguing portraits of such leading figures as Vaclav Havel, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, King Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Slobodan Milosevic, and North Korea's mysterious Kim Jong-Il, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, and Jesse Helms.
Besides her encounters with the famous and powerful, we get to know Albright the private woman: her life raising three daughters, the painful breakup of her marriage to the scion of one of America's leading newspapers families, and the discovery late in life of her Jewish ancestry and that her grandparents had died in Nazi concentration camps.
Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record. It is a tapestry both intimate and panoramic, a rich memoir destined to become a twenty-first century classic.
Madam Secretary Madeleine Albright (1937~2022) :What is fascism? (2018)
She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton’s policies.
ONE
Heroes and Villains
I DIDN'T WANT IT TO END.
Hoping to freeze time, I thought back to the phone ringing one December morning and the words, "I want you to be my Secretary of State," and to the swearing-in ceremony where my eagle pin came unstuck. I thought of little girls seeking autographs on a triumphant train trip from Washington to the United Nations in New York; of Vaclav Havel's face, warm and wise, as he placed a red sash on my shoulder and a kiss on my cheek; and of names enshrined on the wall of a synagogue in Prague. I thought of buildings in Kenya and Tanzania reduced to rubble; of coffins draped with the American flag; and of President Clinton in a rumpled shirt, with glasses perched on his nose, pleading the cause of Middle East peace.
I thought of the countless meetings, some in grand palaces in the middle of the night, others in remote villages where nothing grew except the appetites of young children yet people still laughed and lived in hope. I thought of the cheering of crowds, joyous in Kosovo and Central Europe but robotic in North Korea, and of women and girls sharing their fears in a refugee camp a few miles from the Afghanistan border.
The sound of tape being pulled away from giant rolls broke my reverie. We had been so busy, we hadn't started packing until well after dark. Now boxes and bubble wrap were everywhere, sitting amid stacks of books, discarded bags of pretzels, and mementos gathered during a million miles of travel and almost three thousand days of government service. Staff members were scurrying about, preoccupied with sorting, wrapping, sealing, and labeling. Silently I withdrew into the small inner office of the secretary of state, my office for a few hours more, and went instinctively to the window.
It was the view I would miss almost as much as anything else. Circles of light on the National Mall surrounded the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. Between them, obscured by the January night, were the haunting bronze figures commemorating America's engagement in the Korean War, and the silent yet eloquent black marble of the Vietnam wall. Across the Tidal Basin I saw the dome marking our nation's memorial to Thomas Jefferson, America's first Secretary of State, and across the river the more distant glow of the eternal flame at John Kennedy's grave in Arlington National Cemetery. I felt intense gratitude for each day I had been given to build on the tradition of honor and sacrifice celebrated in front of me.
I may not have wished it to end, but the clock was ticking and there was much to do. I went to my desk for the last time, focusing on a piece of stationery I had centered there. "Dear Cohn," I wrote. "We have been working hard and hope when you arrive in the office it is clean. It will, however, still be filled with the spirit of our predecessors, all of whom felt representing the United States to be the greatest honor. So I turn over to you the best job in the world. Good luck and best wishes. Madeleine."
MADELEINE WASN'T MY ORIGINAL NAME. I was born in Prague on May 15, 1937, in a hospital in the city's Smichov district. In Czech, smichov means laughter but there was little of that in Czechoslovakia during the year of my birth. It was an ominous time. I was christened Marie Jana, the first child of Josef and Anna Korbel, but I wasn't called that. My grandmother nicknamed me Madla after a character in a popular show, Madla in the Brick Factory. My mother, with her special way of pronouncing things, modified it to Madlen. Most of the time I was called Madlenka. It took me years to figure out what my actual name was. Not until I was ten, and learning French, did I find the version that pleased me: Madeleine. However, despite all the language and country changes of my youth, I never altered my original name, and my naturalization certificate and marriage license both read "Marie Jana Korbel."
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