Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower.

EISENHOWER, Susan [Madeleine K. Albright].

$975.00

Item Number: 147575

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

First edition of this compelling biography of an army captain’s wife who becomes First Lady. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, “To Madeleine Albright with admiration and deepest appreciation for her friendship – Susan Eisenhower.” Additionally signed on the half title page. 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. Susan Eisenhower is a trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships, which awarded Albright, a former trustee, the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service posthumously in 2022. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, bookplate of Madeleine Albright. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye.

"Mrs. Ike is full of surprises and new documents, and it gives us a much fuller and fresher portrait of both Ike and Mamie than we have had before. Susan Eisenhower writes with sensitivity and insight about her grandmother, and brings Mamie to life with fine vignettes and anecdotes... I am lost in admiration for both the subject and her granddaughter-biographer, and I recommend Mrs. Ike without reservation" (Stephen E. Ambrose).