Nixon

1982 · réf. 118drm — Association Copy. A beautifully copy inscribed. To Ted Achilles With appreciation for his service to his nation from Richard Nixon Ted Achilles was a career diplomat who served as the Ambassador to Peru for President Truman. President Eisenhower named Achilles Counselor to the State Department where he was the head of a Special Task Force preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion First edition in beautiful condition. Book in fine condition and dust jacket nearly fine with only a few tiny chips in the top of the spine and a few barely noticeable chips at the bottom of spine. Clean text. Unclipped $17.50. Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. The former president draws portraits of major political and military figures of our times--including Douglas MacArthur Shigeru Yoshida Konrad Adenauer Charles de Gaulle Zhou Enlai Mao Winston Churchill Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. A review of the book in 1982 by the Christian Science Monitor included this in part. Richard Nixon will always be remembered for Watergate. But the former President's forte was foreign affairs. Thus it's doubtful that even the most rabid Nixonophobe will find much fault with the author's recollections of world leaders he was privileged to know during his checkered political career. ''Leaders'' is fascinating not only for the profiles of those who have shaped the modern world but because it provides a personal perspective on leadership from a man whose failures have affected the way Americans will measure their chief executives. Mr. Nixon delineates the significant difference between leadership and management. The manager he maintains is primarily concerned with short-term results while the leader is a man of vision who concentrates on the future. Accordingly his subjects are those individuals whose long view was never limited by the problem of political risks. Therefore the leaders he features were frequently rejected by their constituencies because they refused to play it safe. Warner Books hardcover