Leaders: Profiles and Reminisces of Men Who Have Shaped the Modern World.

NIXON, Richard.

Item Number: 88056

New York: Warner Books, 1982.

Signed limited first edition of this work which recollects Nixon’s memories of leaders such as Churchill, de Gaulle and Khrushchev. One of 2500 numbered copies signed by Richard Nixon. This is number 15. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled, all edges gilt, silk endpapers, ribbon bound in, illustrated with 32 photographs. From the estate of Howard Kaminsky. Howard Kaminsky was the former president and publisher of Warner Books, Random House and William Morrow/Avon. Kaminsky developed his reputation by publishing best-sellers by Richard Simmons, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, and Elmore Leonard. Perhaps his best-known deal was signing Richard Nixon to an estimated 2.5 million dollar contract to write his memoirs only six weeks after his resignation in 1974. In fine condition.

Richard Nixon knew virtually every major foreign leader since World War II—some at the pinnacle of power, some during their “years in the wilderness” out of power, and still others toward the end of their lives. His was an unparalleled opportunity to gain insight into the nature of the powerful and qualities of leadership. In Leaders, Nixon shares these insights and experiences. He illustrates these leaders in private, assesses their careers, recalls words of wisdom, and brings to bear his own judgments. We meet the co-architects of the New Japan, Douglas MacArthur and Shigeru Yoshida. Encountering the legendary leaders of China—Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Chiang Kai-shek—we see the men behind the events. We see the intensely private Charles DeGaulle; explore the philosophies of Konraud Adenauer; confront Leonid Brezhnev; and delight in the company of Winston Churchill—not to mention Nixon’s analyses of interactions with dozens of other leaders.