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Title: The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace 1989-1992 by James Addison Baker, Thomas M. Defrank ISBN: 0-399-14087-5 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Open memoir
Comment: Baker's memoir is open and honest. He has put together an excellent narrative analysis of the foreign policy of the Bush administration. In years to come the usefulness of this book will probably decline as more scholarly work appears, but Baker's story continues to be charming and detailed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992
Comment: Soon after becoming secretary of state, George P. Shultz noted that ' unless you do something about it, in the job of secretary of state you will spend 100 percent of your time on the Middle East. ' 'Every Secretary of State becomes a Middle East expert very rapidly, whether he wants to or not,' he also stated. . These observations remain valid today, when Warren Christopher has virtually become Secretary of State for the Middle East. Baker had a similar experience. Page one of his memoirs tells of Saddam Husayn's invasion of Kuwait, the single most dangerous moment of Baker's three-years-plus as secretary of state. Of the book's thirty-four chapters, fully fifteen concentrate on the Middle East, primarily the Kuwait war and the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Famously discreet when in office, Baker unbuttons a bit in the retelling. He captures the atmosphere of his endless travels (he went to sleep on the eve of his Geneva meeting with Tariq 'Aziz, just before the outbreak of hostilities, as the 'chants from antiwar protesters echoed quietly up to our block of rooms') and the vagaries of dealing with Middle Eastern leaders (Asad treated his complaints about Syrian terrorism 'the way one might react to an eccentric uncle at family gatherings'as an unavoidable nuisance to be endured politely'). Baker also provides some new information; for example, in March 1991, he raised to Yitzhak Shamir the possibility of stationing U.S. troops on the Golan Heights.
Middle East Quarterly, June 1996
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Title: A World Transformed by George Bush ISBN: 0679432485 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State by George P. Shultz ISBN: 0684193256 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy by Alexander M. Haig ISBN: 0025473700 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: April, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger ISBN: 0316496618 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: October, 1979 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright ISBN: 0786868430 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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