In The Ring: A Commonwealth Memoir.

First edition of McKinnon’s the behind the scenes job during some turbulent episodes in modern commonwealth history. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, “To Madeleine a very dear friend and a wonderful person to work with for nearly twenty years much love and affection. Don McKinnon Mar 2013” 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. Fine in a fine dust jacket with light bumping to the crown of the spine and a minuscule closed tare to the upper righthand corner. Bookplate to the front pastedown from, “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.”