Madame Ambassador

Madame Ambassador is an intimate description of what being an ambassador is really like. Tova Herzl draws on her twenty-one year career and shares her unique experiences as a single, Jewish orthodox woman serving as Israel’s Ambassador to paint a vivid, entertaining picture of the lives and work of contemporary diplomats. She addresses major political events in which she was closely involved, such as the 2001 UN Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, and discusses ethical and private issues, such as dealing with illness or practicing her religion. The book also uncovers the personal side of diplomacy, including the challenges of giving speeches and interviews, access to expense accounts and household staff, relations within the diplomatic corps, and life under the watchful eye of a bodyguard.

A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country's constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism. The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department's “charm school” and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest—from protocols about seating, salutations, and embassy security to what to do when the deposed King of Greece hands you a small chocolate crown (eat it, of course!). A cross between a foreign policy memoir and an inspiring personal family story—her immigrant Greek father went from agricultural day laborer to land developer and major Democratic party activist—Madam Ambassador draws back the curtain on what it is like to represent the U.S. government abroad as well as how American embassies around the world function.

178 pgs. This is the story of a life of success beyond all expectations. A child of poverty dreams of a wonderful life of noble purpose and service to others and achieves it despite doubts, fears, and lack of money.

The Ambassadors, Published In 1903, Is Considered By Theauthor Himself To Be His Most 'Perfect' Work Of Art. In This Novel, With Much Humour And Delicacy Of Perception, The Author Depicts The Reaction Of Different American Types To The European Environment. Lambert Strether, A Middle-Aged American Of No Particular Achievements, Is Sent To Paris By Mrs. Newsome, A Wealthy Widow, To Discover What, Or Who, Is Keeping Her Son Chad In The Notorious City Of Pleasure And To Persuade Him To Return To Massachusetts And His Responsibilities As Head Of The Family Business. Strether'S Success As An Ambassador Will Ensure His Marriage To Mrs. Newsome. In Paris He Finds Chad Miraculously Transformed By The Influence Of A Charming French Woman, Madame De Vionnet. As The Parisian Spring Advances, He Himself Succumbs To The Congenial Atmosphere Of Paris And The Mysterious Charm Of Madame De Vionnet. Mrs. Newsome Sends Further Ambassadors Her Daughter Sarah And Sarah'S Husband And Sister-In-Law To Appeal To Chad.....

From Mrs. Pandit's early youth, spent in an atmosphere of wealth and culture, we follow her work for Gandhi's Indian nationalist movement, her imprisonment, her world-spanning diplomatic posts, and her tern as president of the United Nations' General Assembly.

The biography of a Minnesota politician who drew attention to civil rights and democratic values and engaged in "people's diplomacy" by reaching out to everyday citizens at home and abroad.