From the Archives: Madeleine Albright
We\u2019re celebrating the life of the late Madeleine Albright this week with an encore of her 2008 City Arts & Lectures appearance..\xa0 Madeleine Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1937. She and her family were refugees who fled Nazi invaders, eventually emigrating to the US in 1948. Albright went on to earn 8 academic degrees, including both a master\u2019s and doctorate from Columbia University.\xa0 Her tenacity and flair for foreign policy led Bill Clinton to appoint her as the first female Secretary of State. During her tenure, Albright concentrated on a bipartisan approach to foreign policy, which made her remarkably popular both at home and abroad. Albright died on March 23, 2022, at the age of 84.
\n\nOn October 13, 2008, Madeleine Albright came to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by Roy Eisenhardt.\xa0 She had just published \u201cMemo to the President-Elect\u201d.