2011, ISBN: 9780684810812

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. Trade paperback. Good. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates… Mehr…

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. Trade paperback. Good. [2], 604, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Gates began his career serving as an officer in the United States Air Force but was quickly recruited by the CIA. Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and was Director of Central Intelligence under President George H. W. Bush. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University. Gates served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, that studied the lessons of the Iraq War. Gates was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush as Secretary of Defense after the 2006 election. He was confirmed with bipartisan support. He continued to serve as Secretary of Defense in President Barack Obama's administration. He retired in 2011. Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Obama. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Director of the CIA from late 1991 through early 1993, Gates sheds considerable light in this memoir on the ways in which the craft of intelligence influenced government policy during the height of the Cold War. Focusing on the undeclared conflict that pitted the US against the USSR and its client states in venues ranging from Afghanistan to Poland, the author offers a notably candid chronological evaluation of what his agency contributed to the last 25 years of America's war against Communism. He also provides telling detail on the homefront hostilities in which CIA officials battled their counterparts at other agencies, justifiably wary lawmakers, and investigative reporters to remain in the good graces of the White House. Gates also explains that detente was the Nixon administration's pragmatic response to the CIA's failure to foresee the Soviet military buildup that began during the late 1960s, producing a singular shift in the global balance of power. Gates settles some scores with out-of-office mandarins. A veteran's genuinely engrossing from-the- inside-out appraisal of an eventful period in the history of the US and the wider world., Simon & Schuster, 1996, 2.5<

1996, ISBN: 0684810816

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[EAN: 9780684810812], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 22.07], [PU: Simon and Schuster, New York], A PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP GATES, DUTY MEMOIRS OF SECRETARY AT WAR, FROM THE SHADOWS SIGNED … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780684810812], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 22.07], [PU: Simon and Schuster, New York], A PASSION FOR LEADERSHIP GATES, DUTY MEMOIRS OF SECRETARY AT WAR, FROM THE SHADOWS SIGNED BOOK ROBERT FIRST EDITION DEFENSE GATES, Jacket, Signed first edition of From The Shadows by Robert Gates. Octavo, 604pp. Hardcover, black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Publishers dust jacket, near fine condition, $30.00 retail price on front flap, light wear from handling at top edge of spine, otherwise fine. Signed by Robert Gates on the title page, dated "5-15-96." Robert M. Gates wrote "From The Shadows" in 1996, shortly after finishing his service as the director of CIA. In the interim he would serve as the president of Texas A&M. In 2006, President George W. Bush would ask him to replace Donald Rumsfeld as the secretary of defense. In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama would ask Secretary Gates to stay on as the secretary of defense, making him the only secretary of defense to serve two presidents of different parties. He retired in 2011 after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden., Books<

ISBN: 9780684810812

Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the mark… Mehr…

Simon & Schuster. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Simon & Schuster, 1<