Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car, and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their satchels before screeching off. In London, they took all of three minutes to make off with {dollar}30 million in diamonds. They are captured – not in person, but on surveillance tapes that record their...

Describes the Affair of the Diamond Necklace and how it further tarnished the already poor reputation of Marie Antoinette among the French people.

Albright served as U.S. secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman ever to hold the position. Here, she tells the stories behind her many pins and jewelry collected on her diplomatic trips around the world.