Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest

Eleni Kounalakis, David Streitfeld

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California businesswoman and mother Eleni Kounalakis’s memoir of her posting as Ambassador to Hungary is a serious yet often humorous insider’s view of diplomacy and the challenges of helming an embassy in a former Soviet satellite nation. It also is an illuminating, timely look at the experience of a woman in political leadership.