Albright graduated from Williams College in 1958. During the summers of 1956 and 1957 he interned at the
Denver Post, where he met fellow intern
Madeleine Jana Korbel, whom he married on June 11, 1959. They had three daughters: twins Anne and
Alice (born 1961) and Katie (born 1967), before divorcing in 1983. He worked at the
Chicago Sun-Times from 1958 to 1961 before joining
Newsday in 1961. In 1963, after the death of his aunt Alicia, he became aide to the president and publisher, his uncle
Harry F. Guggenheim. He worked in New York and later became chief of the Washington, D.C. bureau. and worked as a legislative aide to Maine Senator
Edmund Muskie from 1971 to 1972. In 1972 he published a biography of vice president
Spiro Agnew,
What Makes Spiro Run. It was regarded as biased against Agnew, and a review in the
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science wrote Albright
"leans so heavily on superficial commercial appeal that the book should be of little interest to serious political observers." He was a finalist for the 1980
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on gas and oil policy on public lands. Albright and fellow Cox journalist Cheryl Arvidson won the 1981
Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "...for their series, 'The Snub-Nosed Killers: Handguns in America.'" He and his wife shared a 1988
Overseas Press Club award for foreign reporting for their feature "Stolen Childhood: A Global Report on the Exploitation of Children" and a 1991 National Headliner Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City for their reporting on the leadup to the
Gulf War. In 1990 Albright and Kunstel co-authored
Their Promised Land, an overview of the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict as seen through the history of the
Sorek Valley west of Jerusalem.
Publishers Weekly called it: "vivid, observant, achingly poignant", and
Kirkus Reviews called "a well-written and sweeping portrait of a troubled land." Political analyst
Kathleen Christison wrote: "Uncompromising readers on either side will resent its neutrality. But the book is honest in its choice of historical source material and its treatment of the facts of Jewish-Arab conflict." A review in
Newsweek noted that among the many books on the conflict, Kunstel's and Albright's "stands out for its thoughtfulness, its fairness and its excellent story." In 1997 Albright and Kunstel published ''Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy
, focusing on American atomic spy Theodore Hall, and the married spy couple Morris and Lona Cohen. They supplement their research with interviews conducted with Hall, his wife, and others. Former CIA officer Frederick L. Wettering, reviewing for the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence'', called it "a well-researched and very well-written biography of a heretofore little known spy." A film adaptation was optioned to
Universal Pictures, with
Leonardo DiCaprio tapped to portray Hall. Albright and Kunstel retired in 2000, and since 2001 have owned
Flat Creek Ranch in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Albright has served as chairman of the
Alicia Patterson Foundation, and from 2009 to 2021 was on the board of trustees of St. John's Health in Jackson Hole. Kunstel has served on the governing council of
The Wilderness Society since 2004. == Bibliography ==