We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast.

FOER, Jonathan Safran [Barbra Streisand] [Madeleine K. Albright].

$500.00

Item Number: 147595

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

First edition of this urgent work on global warming. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Accompanied by a manuscript note laid in, “Secretary Madeleine Albright, From Barbra Streisand.” Singer, Songwriter, and environmental activist, Streisand and Albright were close friends since they met in 1993 while Albright was serving as Ambassador to the United Nations. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

"Facing climate change requires an entirely different kind of heroism, which is far less intimidating than escaping a genocidal army, or not knowing where your children's next meal will come from, but is perhaps every bit as difficult because the need for sacrifice is unobvious" (Jonathan Safran Foer).