How Albright learned to shelve any lingering insecurities and speak up as the US Ambassador to the UN.
Born in prewar Prague, Albright's earliest years were defined by her family's political flight—first from Hitler and, after 1948, from Czechoslovakia's Communist government. Albright was a Wellesley alumna, a naturalized citizen, and had worked as a journalist by the time she became a mother for the first time in 1960. She served as Ambassador to the UN for President Clinton's first term and was appointed Secretary of State at the start of his second term, thereby becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
