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  First edition of Talbott's The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the nuclear peace

  TALBOTT, Strobe [Madeleine K. Albright].

  The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace.

  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

  First edition of Talbott's nuanced portrait of one of the most influential diplomats and strategists of the 20th century. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "To Madeleine- With great admiration and full expectation that, if given a chance, you'll help change the rules of the game for the better. Strobe Talbott August 1988." 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 o...

  Price: $400.00     Item Number: 149054

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