To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth. [1st hardcover].
Zelikow, Philip & Rice, Condoleezza.
Language: English
Published by Twelve, New York/Boston., 2019
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xii. + 512pp. + blanks. 16 pages of glossy photo plates, 4 in color. xii. + 512pp. + blanks. Source Notes, Index. Gray boards, silver lettered spine. First Edition: September 2019 so stated. 1st Printing per print number line. NOT A REMAINDER. Near Fine/Near Fine dj. Estate acquisition. Appears partly read but no names, writings or spine creasing. Jacket complete/clean/crisp. Laminated on reverse. (?).
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- Title
- To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth. [1st hardcover].
- Author
- Zelikow, Philip & Rice, Condoleezza.
- Publisher
- Twelve, New York/Boston.
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine dj
- Binding
- HARDCOVER.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1538764679
- ISBN 13
- 9781538764671
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Dimensions
- Octavo.
Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late 1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed, states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods have always been accompanied by terrible wars -- but not this time.
This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a "postwar" world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can step up to great challenges.
Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, To Build a Better World is an authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever.
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About the Author
Condoleezza Rice was the sixty-sixth US secretary of state and the first black woman to hold that office. Prior to that, she was the first woman to serve as national security adviser. She is a professor at Stanford University and cofounder of RiceHadleyGates LLC. Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011), Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010), Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017), and Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (2018).
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