Background
She was born on February 22, 1946, and lived in Bogota, New Jersey until 1956 when her family moved to Tenafly, New Jersey.
19 Columbus Dr, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
Blackman graduated from Tenafly High School in 1964.
541 Main St, New London, NH 03257, USA
Blackman received an Associate of Arts degree from Colby Junior College in 1966.
Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
Blackman received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut in 1968.
19 Columbus Dr, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
Blackman graduated from Tenafly High School in 1964.
541 Main St, New London, NH 03257, USA
Blackman received an Associate of Arts degree from Colby Junior College in 1966.
Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
Blackman received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut in 1968.
(Veteran Time magazine correspondent Ann Blackman has writ...)
Veteran Time magazine correspondent Ann Blackman has written the first comprehensive biography of Madeleine Albright. The book reveals a life of enormous texture -- a lonely, peripatetic childhood in war-ravaged Europe; two harrowing escapes from her homeland, once from the Nazis, then from the Communists; her arrival in America; Madeleine's unhappiness as a teenager in Denver, always the outsider, the little refugee; her marriage into an old American newspaper family with great wealth.
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1998
(For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or Sou...)
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann Blackman tells the surprising true story of a unique woman in history.
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2005
(Two veteran "Time" magazine reporters present the shockin...)
Two veteran "Time" magazine reporters present the shocking, fascinating account of one of the greatest espionage scandals of our time-the story of Robert Hanssen, one of the most mysterious traitors in American history.
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2008
(This is the story of one of the United States’ top humani...)
This is the story of one of the United States’ top humanitarian relief experts who, over three decades, became a legend in her field. Starting in 1975 when Taft was 32-years-old, Julia Taft directed the task force that managed the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
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2011
She was born on February 22, 1946, and lived in Bogota, New Jersey until 1956 when her family moved to Tenafly, New Jersey.
Blackman graduated from Tenafly High School in 1964, received an Associate of Arts degree from Colby Junior College in 1966, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Connecticut in 1968.
Blackman first honed her reportorial skills at the Boston Globe and at the Bergen Record before signing on as a national correspondent for the Associated Press in 1969. During her 15-year stint there, Blackman covered such big stories as the Watergate hearings, national political conventions, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life. She was also a member of the Associated Press’s “Mod Squad,” a team of reporters who wrote about the social upheaval of the 1960s. Time magazine hired Blackman as Washington deputy bureau chief in 1985. From 1987 to 1990, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the magazine in Moscow. Subsequently, Blackman returned to Washington, DC, where her duties have included covering Hillary Clinton and writing about U.S. social policy.
In 1996, Blackman undertook researching and writing a biography of Madeline Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State and, in fact, the holder of the highest federal office ever attained by a woman. Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright (1998) refers to four seasons in Albright’s life - as a young girl in Czechoslovakia; as a struggling immigrant student and graduate student; as the wife of millionaire newspaper scion Joseph Medill Paterson Albright in an ultimately failed marriage; and as a foreign policy expert plying her trade in academia, as ambassador to the United Nations, and in the State Department. Bill Clinton’s appointment of Albright as Secretary of State drew controversy because of her relative lack of experience in the diplomatic trenches. The press criticized her for - among other things - her handling of U.S. response to the Somalia War when she was in the United Nations and her denying knowledge of her family’s Jewish ancestry when the story broke in 1997.
Perhaps Albright’s defining moment was her tough-talking stance against strongman Slobodan Milosevic during the 1998-99 Kosovo crisis. Blackman describes that period and a goodly portion of the rest of Albright’s life in the biography. Blackman interviewed some two hundred people, including Albright, and she scoured archives and libraries in Czechoslovakia, Britain, and the United States. Her diligent research paid off. Washington Monthly reviewer Wayne Biddle noted that the biography contains “much about Czechoslovakia before, during, and after World War II; foreign policy luminaries of the Democratic Party; and the ever-evolving roles of Washington society wives (and ex-wives).”
Not skimping on the personal details, Blackman devotes the first third of the biography to the influence of Albright’s father, Josef Korbel, on the subject’s life. He was a Czechoslovakian diplomat to Yugoslavia who fled the Czech Communist state and eventually settled into academic life in the United States. Albright’s own career choices prove that she is her father’s daughter. Another event that shaped Albright’s life was suffering through a divorce that she did not initiate nor want. She used her millions from the divorce settlement to the network through the “political salons” that she hosted. She became a foreign policy advisor to Michael Dukakis during his presidential campaign and in 1989 she successfully pushed for Bill Clinton’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 2001, Blackman left Time magazine to devote full time to book-length works. Her second biographical book, The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History, coauthored with Elaine Shannon, appeared the following year. In it, Blackman details the life and career of Hanssen, a mole in the FBI who handed over sensitive materials to the Soviet KGB from 1979 to 1991. Working on her own, Blackman produced the 2007 biography, Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy, again focusing on the world of espionage. Here Blackman looks at the life of the famous Confederate spy, Greenhow, who became a Washington fixture, the friend of President James Buchanan.
(Two veteran "Time" magazine reporters present the shockin...)
2008(This is the story of one of the United States’ top humani...)
2011(Veteran Time magazine correspondent Ann Blackman has writ...)
1998(For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or Sou...)
2005Before that, Blackman was a reporter for The Associated Press with assignments that included the Watergate hearings, presidential politics, the Iranian hostage crisis and the assassination attempts on Governor George Wallace and President Ronald Reagan. Blackman has appeared on TV and radio shows including A&E Biography, Washington Week in Review, The Diane Rehm Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN, Fox Morning News, The Charlie Rose Show, Book Notes/CSPAN, The Hill, To the Best of Our Knowledge and The Jim Bohannon Show.
Blackman married Michael Putzel, a White House correspondent for the Boston Globe. They have two children.
