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  First Edition of Zwack's If You Wear Galoshes, You're An Emigre; Lengthily Inscribed by him to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

  ZWACK, Anne Marshall A memoir about Peter Zwack [Madeleine Albright].

  If You Wear Galoshes, You’re An Emigre.

  Budapest: Ab Ovo Publishing House, 2001.

  First edition of a memoir that explores the author's personal experience as a child of emigre parents. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, warmly inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "Dear Madam Secretary...Hope this resonates with you and that you find this memoir of an Old Europe past of interest... Truly enjoyed and was honored meeting you...With warmest regards from a fellow child of emigre Serving on behalf of our great nation Peter Zwak Jr BG, USA June 2012 Washington DC." With an autograph letter signed by the author to Albright laid in. 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 ...

  Price: $600.00     Item Number: 149059

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