Madam Ambassador : three years of diplomacy, dinner parties, and democracy in Budapest /

A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister and a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kounalakis, Eleni (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Kounalakis, Eleni. Ambassadors > United States > Biography. Women ambassadors > United States > Biography. Greek Americans > Biography. United States > Foreign relations > Hungary. Hungary > Foreign relations > United States. Hungary > Politics and government > 1989- Budapest (Hungary) > Biography. United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017. Afghan War, 2001- > Diplomatic history. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.

Table of Contents:

Boar Hunt
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
"One Eye Is Smiling, One Eye Is Crying"
A Long Way from Home
How Do You Become a U.S. Ambassador?
Viktor Orban's Revolution
Family Life
The Curse of Turan and the Fourth of July
Travels with Csaba
Aghanistan : In the War Zone
God and Country
Presidency of the European Union
Golden Week
Seven Hundred New Laws
Family Life...the Royal Treatment
The Three-Legged Stool of Democracy
Anti-Semitism : The Bizarre and the Tragic
Security Overseas
The New Deal, Same as the Old Deal?
Afghanistan, Revisited
Farewell
Letter from Secretary John Kerry to Ambassador Kounalakis.