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  First Edition of And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation; Inscribed by Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright

  KAMARA-UMUNNA, Agnes Fallah; Emily Holland [Madeleine K. Albright].

  And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation.

  New York: Hyperion, 2011.

  First edition of this memoir about the devastation of the Liberia civil war and its rise out of the ashes. Octavo, original publisher's boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.”  Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To former secretary of state Madeleine Albright Best Regards Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna... 03/02/2016." 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 ...

  Price: $250.00     Item Number: 147576

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