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MADAM AMBASSADOR: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
by Kounalakis, Eleni
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1620971119
- ISBN 13
- 9781620971116
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.: The New Press, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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. Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing copy, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF59
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022012
- Title
- MADAM AMBASSADOR: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
- Author
- Kounalakis, Eleni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1620971119
- ISBN 13
- 9781620971116
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 320
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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