BUSH, George. [James A. Baker III and Lech Walesa].
All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings.
New York: Scribner, 1999.
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First Edition of All the Best, George Bush; Signed by George Bush, James A. Baker III, and Lech Walesa
First edition of George H.W. Bush’s selection from a lifetime of letters and personal writings, an exceptional copy signed by the President together with two central figures of the end of the Cold War. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by George Bush on the title page, additionally signed on the title page by his Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Polish Solidarity leader and President Lech Walesa. As President, Bush worked hand in hand with Baker to steer American foreign policy through the collapse of communism, the reunification of Germany, and the Gulf War, while championing the democratic transformation of Eastern Europe that in Poland was led by Walesa, whose Solidarity movement helped bring down the Iron Curtain and to whom Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana. Rare and desirable.
All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings, published in 1999, is George H.W. Bush’s selection from a lifetime of personal letters, diary entries, and memoranda, assembled as an intimate autobiography in his own words. The forty-first President of the United States, a naval aviator in the Second World War, congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China, director of the CIA, and Vice President under Ronald Reagan before his own presidency from 1989 to 1993, Bush was a famously prolific and warm-hearted correspondent, and the collection traces his public career and private life through the letters he wrote to family, friends, and colleagues. It offers a candid and affectionate self-portrait of one of the most experienced statesmen of the modern American presidency.
All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings.
$2,200.00
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