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Memo to the President elect : how we can restore America's reputation and leadership / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward.

Summary:

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offers a persuasive, wide-ranging set of recommendations to the prospective winner of the 2008 Presidential election. Secretary Albright explains how to select a first-rate foreign policy team, how to avoid the pitfalls that plagued earlier presidents, how to ensure that decisions, once carefully made, are successfully implemented, and how to employ the full range of tools available to a president to persuade other countries to support U.S. objectives.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780061351808
  • ISBN: 0061351806
  • Physical Description: 328 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper, [2008]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A mandate to lead -- What kind of president? -- Thy staff shall comfort thee -- The art of persuasion -- Fifty lady sharpshooters -- Be sure you're right; then go ahead -- The lion and the lion-tamers -- New foundations -- Hoops of iron -- America's place in the Asian century -- Pride and prejudice in Russia and South Asia -- One Iraq is enough -- Middle East: the power to choose -- Isolating Al Qaeda -- Above the thundering abyss.
Subject:
Political leadership.
United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009.

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