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of a lifetime. Henry A. Kissinger August 2014”, together with Carrington’s bookplate on the front free endpaper. The Conservative politician and hereditary peer Peter Carrington (1919–2018) served as defence secretary from 1970 to 1974, foreign secretary from 1979 to 1982, and secretary general of NATO from 1984 to 1988. As Margaret Thatcher’s first foreign secretary, he presided over the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the Rhodesian Bush War and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Following the invasion of the Falkland Islands, he resigned to deflect blame from the government as a whole. Thatcher valued Carrington highly despite their disagreements (he was a Conservative of the older, aristocratic school), and he skilfully preserved relations between her and the Foreign Office, which she distrusted and “considered effete and defeatist. Carrington gave her as good as he got, but sometimes tired of her belligerence” ( ODNB ). Kissinger and Carrington were friends and associates for many years. Carrington was a director of Kissinger Associates, Kissinger’s geopolitical consulting firm. Kissinger wrote the preface to Carrington’s memoirs, Reflecting on Things Past (1989), in which he wrote that no world leader “has impressed me more” and praised his “matter-of-fact commitment to service”. He referred to Carrington as a “good friend”, and noted “he is a statesman who has performed with a grace and style that have nearly vanished from our pedestrian age . . . I never thought of him as a foreign statesman from a friendly country, but as a colleague on the ramparts defending the common values of the West”. Carrington, likewise, praised Kissinger in his memoirs as “a remarkable human being” (p. 236). In World Order , “Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism” (jacket). Octavo. Original grey paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped, jacket very lightly soiled, near-fine. £1,000 [158276]
Christabel fled to Paris to avoid arrest in 1912 after the window- smashing campaign, Kenney became part of the senior hierarchy, one of the only working-class women in a position of authority in the organization. “Among suffragette autobiographies, Kenney’s memoirs (1924) were preceded only by Emmeline Pankhurst’s (1914). Bound in suffragette colours, they had been ‘written under very difficult conditions’, Kenney recalled; ‘some of the best parts were written on a high road in Sussex while I was taking Warwick, as a baby, out for an airing’ . . . They reflect her crusading, apolitical approach to public policy; still star-struck with Christabel, they swallow her tactics whole, and focus largely on daring japes and escapades. Nowhere does Kenney consider the case for party-aligned, adult suffragist, or non-militant options . . . Kenney’s memoirs, for all their mysticism and political naïvety, vividly describe how the WSPU and its personalities seemed to a dedicated and strategically placed subordinate” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine and front cover lettered in green, thick concentric green and white horizontal lines at spine ends continuing across front cover. With pictorial dust jacket. Photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 photographic plates; 16-page publisher’s advertisements at rear. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper dated 1946. Extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, cloth faded at spine ends else very bright, endpapers browned, some foxing to edges and contents, some creasing and a few nicks to frontispiece; jacket somewhat faded and soiled, chips and tears stabilized on verso with archival tape. Overall in very good condition, preserving the rare dust jacket. £3,250 [146974] 61 KISSINGER, Henry. World Order. New York: Penguin Press, 2014 a testament to the us–uk special relationship First edition, first printing, presentation copy to former British foreign secretary Lord Carrington, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Peter Carrington, friend and inspiration
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