San Antonio College Library

This engrossing biography recounts the life of one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated--though ultimately tragic--public figures, a man who mastered both Wall Street and Washington. James Forrestal was a brilliant financier and military organizer, and he was the first United States Secretary of Defense. Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley follow Forrestal through his Irish upbringing in upstate New York--he was the son of immigrants--through...

The first comprehensive biography of Madeleine Albright. An objective yet deeply personal portrait of the only female Secretary of State & the highest-ranking woman in the American government.

Albert B. Fall, interior secretary in the Harding administration, was the first American cabinet member sent to prison for a crime committed in office. In the Teapot Dome affair - the worst modern political scandal until Watergate - Fall leased two naval oil reserves, Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Hills, to Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny and received payments of $404,000 from the two millionaire oilmen. Tempest over Teapot Dome...

"America's first woman secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, has re-cast American diplomacy in the post-Cold War era. Thomas W. Lippman examines Madeleine Albright's performance as Secretary of State and assesses her impact. Lippman also analyzes U.S. foreign policy and the Clinton administration's management of world affairs at the onset of the 2000 election campaign. Lippman offers a look at what lies behind the public statements by taking the...

Dean Acheson was Harry Truman's Secretary of State and played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. This account of his youth and early career includes his time as a law clerk to Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis.

From a segregated childhood in Alabama to becoming the most powerful woman in the world, Condoleezza Rice cuts an extraordinary and enigmatic figure. This incisive documentary tells a mesmerizing Faustian tale of a woman whose pursuit of power destroyed her core values and rocketed America into a fateful new direction. Leading her own defense through a series of candid interviews, this is political biography like no other.

"How abuses during the Watergate witchhunt by the press, prosecutors, and politicians assaulted the civil rights and personal lives of innocent victims and damaged public confidence in government"--Jacket subtitle.

"Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. "All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we...