White House Years and Years of Upheaval.

KISSINGER, Henry. [Madeleine K. Albright].

$850.00

Item Number: 148202

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979-1982.

First editions Kissinger’s monumental New York Times best-selling work and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. From the library of fellow Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. 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. Each volume is very good in a very good dust jacket. With Albright’s bookplate to each pastedown. Jacket designs by Paul Bacon. Author photographs by Tom Blau and Bern Schwartz. An exceptional association.

“An unlikely celebrity who drew fire from across the political spectrum, Henry Kissinger is widely recognized as one of the great American statesmen of the 20th century. According to biographer Robert Schulzinger, ‘Kissinger seizes the imagination because he engineered the most significant turning point in United States foreign policy since the beginning of the cold war’ (PBS). Kissinger's White House Years and Years of Upheaval offer an intimate portrait of the 56th United States Secretary of State's role in U.S. foreign policy between the years of 1969 and 1977, as well as his relationships with Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The White House Years covers Kissinger's beginnings in the White House, the Vietnam War, Nixon's visit to China, and the Moscow Summit. Years of Upheaval ventures into the Watergate Scandal and Kissinger's appointment as Secretary of State.