Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control.

TALBOTT, Strobe.

Item Number: 147608

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

First edition, early printing of this captivating work about Deadly Gambits, from the library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, black and white photographs to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper and stamped ‘With the Compliments of The Arms Control Association.’ 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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown from, “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Jacket design by Iris Weinstein

"Most important was the word "framework." It suggested that perhaps there was a way to build something rather quickly on which an agreement could rest-something skeletaland makeshift that could provide a platform on which Reagan might meet with the Soviet leadership before the 1984 election." (Strobe Talbott)