Memo to the President Elect audiobook

Memo to the President Elect LP: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, Madeleine Albright The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America's core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, former secretary of state and bestselling author Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe.

Read this a few years back (met Madeleine and got an autographed copy) and thought of it today. Excellent overview of world politics and economies, from a woman who has many many years of exposure. I like that she included her opinion as well, in each section of the world. It really is like a world "briefing" country by country. Marvelous.

Madeleine Albright is one of those persons that I feel conjugates the theory with the practical realization of the matters. it’s not bs, it is not an abstract perspective of some books read while in holidays or some values that you found through friends you considered intelligent but are not gifted enough to talk with crowds. Her values are real, the way in which her perspective of them was build makes them principles of matter. She would not surrender them. At the same time, she has a realistic perspective of things, of cultures, of the world, of the political involvement necessary to solve affairs of states.

An excellent book that shows how little has changed in the 15 years since it was published. If anything things have worsened. Yet there’s still hope for change and a better day in which we listen to our better angels for the betterment of all.

A voice of reason---a model for leadership. Answers the question, "now what?".

Well isn't this quaint reading in 2020.

I love every book of hers so far. She is so wise and worldly and such the diplomat. I admire her so much and wish Washington DC was filled with more like her instead of what we have.

Albright, in less than 300 pages, discusses the foreign policy issues confronting the next president. Although she is capable of discussing any of these issues in significant detail she is clear and concise. In the first part she outlines the tools available to the President, including domestic dissent, development aid, and the military. As she goes through the list of tools, and how she has seen them used or used them herself, I found my self gaining a better understanding of the processes of our government. After she has described many different tolls she takes us on a tour of the world. In each section she lays out the challenges the president will face and a few options. Rather than harping on the miss steps of the current leadership she points a way forward through a complex and dangerous world.

A thoughtful analysis of the specific challenges a president faces running an administration and managing US foreign policy in the current moment.More importantly, an opportunity to bask, for a few hours, in the sparkling company of a spirit of the highest accomplishment. A pragmatic bureaucrat, a buoyant realist, and an inspiration to shed the temptations of cynicism as a burden and a bore.I'm reminded of a joke I read about mathematician Paul Erdos which applies equally to Madeline: Q: Imagine a race of highly evolved and intelligent aliens, with the appearance and behavior of human beings, had landed and mingled among us. How could we recognize them?A: Easy! They'd be exactly like Checkoslovakians!

The next president, whether Democrat or Republican, will face the daunting task of repairing America's core relationships and tarnished credibility after the damage caused during the past seven years. In Memo to the President Elect, Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face and how to return America to its rightful role as a source of inspiration across the globe.We met Madeleine Albright when she visited the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. You can listen to her talk about Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation & Leadership here:http://www.authorsontourlive.com/?p=125

"Remember the theme associated with Peter the Great? 'Fear not change; strive that tomorrow be better than today.' This banal instinct for self-improvement is at the root of all human gains. It is banal because it has been translated into everything from the language of Weight Watchers to the pep talks given to Boy Scouts, but in a world held hostage by the cycles of nature, nothing is more revolutionary than the idea that we have it within our power as humans to lift lives in ways that matter, that our power to choose has meaning." pg 294this woman rocks my socks

Mme Albright is brilliant, knowledgable, and hilarious to boot. A must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of America's current relationship with the rest of the world (which is not great), with lots of great insights. More than just a critique of what a shambles Bush and his cronies made of our standing in the world, it has plenty of interesting ideas for the president-to-be, whoever he/she ends up in the White House. Now if only more Americans actually GAVE a crap about any of these issues...!

In this book Maddy addresses herself to the future president. She goes through what the president can expect to encounter in foreign relations. She does a good job in bashing the current administration in just about everything that has happened. I found the information on different cultures and the history to be really interesting. Its all clearly biased, and she thinks alot of herself. I think alot of her too, so it was fine with me, but it is definitely partisan.

The former Secretary of State explains the problems the US has and what needs to be done about them by the next president. Brilliant and clear. (It is beyond sad that we need to be reminded how far we have fallen.)This is a fascinating guide that all voters should read so they can understand, again, what our government does - and doesn't do - and why. Albrights thoughts and wit are in her own voice, which is equally fascinating.