1992, ISBN: 9780399140877

New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jeffrey W. Bass (Jacket Painting) and Gaspar Tring. xxiv, [2], 836, [2] pa… mais…

New York: Random House, 2015. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jeffrey W. Bass (Jacket Painting) and Gaspar Tring. xxiv, [2], 836, [2] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Author's Note. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham also wrote Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2012). Additionally, he is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Selected by the Bush family to be the official biographer for George H. W. Bush, Meacham's book, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, was published in 2015. He gave eulogies for both President Bush and Barbara Bush when they died in 2018. From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush's diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and affecting portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation: his childhood in Connecticut, his heroic service in World War II, his entry into the Texas oil business, and his storied rise in politics from congressman to U.N. ambassador to head of the CIA to forty-first president of the United States. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review · Time · NPR · St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of Communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. This is the human story of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed. His was one of the great American lives. Born into a loving, privileged, and competitive family, Bush joined the navy on his eighteenth birthday and at age twenty was shot down on a combat mission over the Pacific. He married young, started a family, and resisted pressure to go to Wall Street, striking out for the adventurous world of Texas oil. Over the course of three decades, Bush would rise from the chairmanship of his county Republican Party to serve as congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, head of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China, director of Central Intelligence, vice president under Ronald Reagan, and, finally, president of the United States. In retirement he became the first president since John Adams to see his son win the ultimate prize in American politics. With access not only to the Bush diaries but, through extensive interviews, to the former president himself, Meacham presents Bushes candid assessments of many of the critical figures of the age, ranging from Richard Nixon to Nancy Reagan; Mao to Mikhail Gorbachev; Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld; Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton. Here is high politics as it really is but as we rarely see it. From the Pacific to the presidency, Destiny and Power charts the vicissitudes of the life of this quietly compelling American original. Meacham sheds new light on the rise of the right wing in the Republican Party, a shift that signaled the beginning of the end of the center in American politics. Destiny and Power is an affecting portrait of a man who, driven by destiny and by duty, forever sought, ultimately, to put the country first., Random House, 2015, 3, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1995. First Printing. very good, very good. 25 cm, 687, acid-free paper, illus., index, pencil erasure on half-title, DJ edges slightly worn. Mr. Baker has served three presidents (Ford, Reagan, and Bush) in positions including Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff, and others., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9780399140877

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. M6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Jim Baker to previous owner on a "JAMES A. BAKER, III"… mais…

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. M6 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Jim Baker to previous owner on a "JAMES A. BAKER, III" bookplate adhered on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, scattered wrinkling, crease, light scratches and rubbing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book lightly cocked, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine, some cover edgewear, some light stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. From one of our country's most distinguished statesmen, The Politics of Diplomacy is an outstanding inside account of an extraordinary time in world history. By any reckoning, James Baker's years as Secretary of State contained some of the most pivotal events of the second half of the twentieth century, and few men played as critical a role in so many of them as Baker himself. In this candid, revealing account, Baker uses his unique perspectives to take us inside those events and the personalities involved in them: the collapse of Communism, the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Union itself; the reunification of Germany; the end of conflict in Central America; the repression in Tiananmen Square; the invasion of Panama; the birth of freedom in South Africa; the remarkable negotiations behind the coalition-building of Gulf War; and the even more remarkable talks that led Israelis and Arabs to sit down at the same table for the first time after decades of bloody conflict. In the process, Baker gives us unparalleled insights into the sometimes delicate, sometimes rough-and-tumble art - and politics - of diplomacy, and intimate portraits of the leaders whose styles he came to know so well, individuals such as Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Shamir, Mubarak, Assad, Kings Fahd and Hussein, Genscher, Li Peng, the staunchly humanistic Shevardnadze, and Baker's friend and mentor, President George Bush. In all, this is a stunning work, an invaluable addition to the leading chronicles of our time. 9.5"x6.5", 687 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and political figure. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Houston, Baker attended The Hill School and Princeton University before serving in the United States Marine Corps. After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, he pursued a legal career. He became a close friend of George H. W. Bush and worked for Bush's unsuccessful 1970 campaign for the United States Senate. After the campaign, he served in various positions for President Richard Nixon. In 1975, he was appointed Undersecretary of Commerce for Gerald Ford. He served until May 1976, ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign, and unsuccessfully sought election as the Attorney General of Texas. Baker ran Bush's unsuccessful campaign for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, but made a favorable impression on the Republican nominee, Ronald Reagan. Reagan appointed Baker as his White House Chief of Staff, and Baker remained in that position until 1985, when he became the Secretary of the Treasury. As Treasury Secretary, he arranged the Plaza Accord and the Baker Plan. He resigned as Treasury Secretary to manage Bush's successful 1988 campaign for president. After the election, Bush appointed Baker to the position of Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, he helped oversee U.S. foreign policy during the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union, as well as during the Gulf War. After the Gulf War, Baker served another stint as White House Chief of Staff from 1992 to 1993. Baker remained active in business and public affairs after Bush's defeat in the 1992 presidential election. He served as a United Nations envoy to Western Sahara and as a consultant to Enron. During the Florida recount following the 2000 Presidential election, he managed George W. Bush's legal team in the state. He served as the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, which Congress formed to study Iraq and the Iraq War. He serves on the World Justice Project and the Climate Leadership Council. Baker is the namesake of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, 3<

1992, ISBN: 9780399140877

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. P4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Jim Baker to previous owner on the title page in very good condi… mais…

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. P4 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Jim Baker to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, crease and tiny tear on edges and corners, patch scuffed on the lower front, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some light chipping and smudge on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. From one of our country's most distinguished statesmen, The Politics of Diplomacy is an outstanding inside account of an extraordinary time in world history. By any reckoning, James Baker's years as Secretary of State contained some of the most pivotal events of the second half of the twentieth century, and few men played as critical a role in so many of them as Baker himself. In this candid, revealing account, Baker uses his unique perspectives to take us inside those events and the personalities involved in them: the collapse of Communism, the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Union itself; the reunification of Germany; the end of conflict in Central America; the repression in Tiananmen Square; the invasion of Panama; the birth of freedom in South Africa; the remarkable negotiations behind the coalition-building of Gulf War; and the even more remarkable talks that led Israelis and Arabs to sit down at the same table for the first time after decades of bloody conflict. In the process, Baker gives us unparalleled insights into the sometimes delicate, sometimes rough-and-tumble art - and politics - of diplomacy, and intimate portraits of the leaders whose styles he came to know so well, individuals such as Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Kohl, Shamir, Mubarak, Assad, Kings Fahd and Hussein, Genscher, Li Peng, the staunchly humanistic Shevardnadze, and Baker's friend and mentor, President George Bush. In all, this is a stunning work, an invaluable addition to the leading chronicles of our time. 9.5"x6.5", 687 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. James Addison Baker III is an American attorney and political figure. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Born in Houston, Baker attended The Hill School and Princeton University before serving in the United States Marine Corps. After graduating from the University of Texas School of Law, he pursued a legal career. He became a close friend of George H. W. Bush and worked for Bush's unsuccessful 1970 campaign for the United States Senate. After the campaign, he served in various positions for President Richard Nixon. In 1975, he was appointed Undersecretary of Commerce for Gerald Ford. He served until May 1976, ran Ford's 1976 presidential campaign, and unsuccessfully sought election as the Attorney General of Texas. Baker ran Bush's unsuccessful campaign for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, but made a favorable impression on the Republican nominee, Ronald Reagan. Reagan appointed Baker as his White House Chief of Staff, and Baker remained in that position until 1985, when he became the Secretary of the Treasury. As Treasury Secretary, he arranged the Plaza Accord and the Baker Plan. He resigned as Treasury Secretary to manage Bush's successful 1988 campaign for president. After the election, Bush appointed Baker to the position of Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, he helped oversee U.S. foreign policy during the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union, as well as during the Gulf War. After the Gulf War, Baker served another stint as White House Chief of Staff from 1992 to 1993. Baker remained active in business and public affairs after Bush's defeat in the 1992 presidential election. He served as a United Nations envoy to Western Sahara and as a consultant to Enron. During the Florida recount following the 2000 Presidential election, he managed George W. Bush's legal team in the state. He served as the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group, which Congress formed to study Iraq and the Iraq War. He serves on the World Justice Project and the Climate Leadership Council. Baker is the namesake of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, 3<

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1995. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 390pp w appendices. Four unpagin… mais…

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1995. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 390pp w appendices. Four unpaginated sections of historical bw photographs. Maps. Dark blue cloth w crisp white lettering on cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Volume 2 from a five volume history of the 2 SS Panzer Division das Reich. Originally published in German as Division das Reich II by Munin Verlag, Osanbuck, W Germany, and translated to English for this edition by Bo Friesen., J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1995, 4, Putnam Adult, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 152x34x103. Signed. [Inscribed by James A. Baker III to Eugene A Sekulow.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> "James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. He served as the nation's 61st secretary of state from January 1989 through August 1992 under President George H.W. Bush. During his tenure at the State Department, Baker traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post–Cold War era." - Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy <br> Eugene A. Sekulow was a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was fluent in German. For more than 30 years, he was chairman of both the German American Chamber of Commerce and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of JHU. In 2006, in recognition of his efforts to foster post-war reconciliation between Germany and the United States, he was awarded Das GrosseVerdienstkreuz (the Great Cross of Merit) from the German government., Putnam Adult, 1995, 3<

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James A. Baker, III had a long and distinguished career having served in various roles under Presidents Ford (Sec. of Commerce 1975-76), Reagan (White House Chief of Staff 1981-85 and US … mais…

James A. Baker, III had a long and distinguished career having served in various roles under Presidents Ford (Sec. of Commerce 1975-76), Reagan (White House Chief of Staff 1981-85 and US Sec. of the Treasury 1985-88) & H.W. Bush (White House Chief of Staff 1992-93, US Sec. of State 1989-92). During his tenure as Sec. of State, the world witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War as well as the Gulf War in Iraq. Less known is his work blocking the recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) by threatening to cut funding to agencies in the UN. Mr. Baker is a leader of the Climate Leadership Council. The group consists of Republican elder statesmen and in 2017 proposed a form of carbon tax that will be rebated back to the populace in the form of dividends. The First Edition, first printing book has a $32.50 price on the jacket and a 10 - 1 number line on the copyright page. Slight shelf wear on very good jacket that is protected with removable mylar cover. Inscription on ffep bookplate is to Dr. Ron Roskens, former president of the Univ. of Nebraska and later appointed to the Agency For International Development (AID, U.S. State Dept.) in 1990 by George H.W. Bush. Including index, 687 pp., Putnam Adult, 1995-09-26, 4<