diplomats

Focuses on the accomplishments of the former United States ambassador to the United Nations who became the first woman to serve as Secretary of State.

A biography of the first woman U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, describing ten periods in her life that explain her ability to triumph over adversity and her success in politics.

Describes what happened to a Swedish diplomat who saved 30,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

A biography of Shirley Temple Black, the 1930s child movie star who later became U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia; also includes information on becoming an actor and becoming a foreign service officer.

The casual encounter between a young woman and diplomat Sir Stafford Nye on a Trans-European passenger flight to London leads them to strange and unexpected places, and into a maze of conspiracy, and danger.

An account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.

Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

Biography of the young Swede who rescued over a hundred thousand Jews during World War II using special passports and working permits. He disappeared behind the Russian Army lines at the end of the war and his fate is still unknown.

Traces the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and then mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.