Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy.

POLLACK, Kenneth M. [Madeleine K. Albright].

$475.00

Item Number: 147589

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

First edition of this thoughtful and important book on foreign policy. Octavo, original publishers half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “10/21/13 For Secretary Albright, I hope you find this thought-provoking and that together we can all find a way to prevent another war in the Middle East. With Greatest Admiration (And Affection!), Kenneth Pollack.” 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, bookplate of Albright to the front pastedown. Jacket design and illustration by Base Art Co.

"Unless circumstances change dramatically, I will choose the path of containment. It feels better, safer to me. If our nation chooses the path of war, may we walk it with greater care than in our last few forays and in full understanding of its costs and risks. Perhaps the outcome will be better, but at least we will not have to say we did not know" (Kenneth M. Pollack).