I'm not sure how I missed this book when it first came out, but if you are fascinated by jewelry and like a good read, I highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down, once I started it.
And while it is available for Kindle, only buy it in hard cover. There must be several hundred full color photos, and you would miss a lot by seeing it only in black and white.
I must have been sleeping during the entire time Albright was Secretary of State, because I never knew anything about her wearing pins to send a message or to relay how she was feeling about sensitive talks. During the time she served in this position, once she began wearing pins there was even a website dedicated to watching what pin she wore and what it might possibly mean. I would have liked to have followed that, if I had known about it!
She fills the book with interesting vignettes of her life. I never knew she was born in Czechoslovakia or that her father was a diplomat or that she went to Wellsley and married into the Guggenheim family. It must have been a great advantage to speak and understand more than English in her political life.
The pictures in the book take your breath away! Many of the pins are gemstones and expensive, but there are many that are antique costume pins. She speaks about buying, at full price, some of the pins that were gifted to her in diplomatic negotiations.
When the Russians bugged her office, she wore a HUGE gemstone cockroach as a pin. It is beautiful, and tremendously savvy, but nothing I could ever carry off.
She began to wear pins when Saddam Hussein called her a snake. She happened to have a gorgeous gold snake pin and she wore it in the meeting she had with him.
She is a smart, aware woman, and to be able to send a message that is both pointed and subtle is quite a forte.
Have you read this book?
I give this 5 out of 5 stars. While I borrowed it from the library, I would like it to be in my library. I expect I will be buying it.
Karin
www.savvythinker.com
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Originally posted 2010-06-25 09:15:04.
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