RICHARD NIXON
The former President speaks out about world leadership.
Book inscribed and signed: "To Samuel C. Vickory/With best wishes/from/Richard Nixon" on the second flyleaf. Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World by Richard Nixon, 322p, 6¼x9½, hardcover, Simon & Schuster: 1992. "In this brilliant and timely book, at once visionary and pragmatic, Richard Nixon defines the historic challenges--and opportunities--facing America today as the cold war ends and a new, far more complex era begins...Nixon deals in detail with the changes taking place in the former Soviet Union and explains how we can not only best help its people but also serve our own interests, basing his arguments on his long, unrivaled experience in Soviet affairs, as well as his recent personal contacts with Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and many of the leaders of the failed coup...." Name of owner, "Samuel C. Vickroy", in ink on first flyleaf. Nixon's ninth book. The former 37th President had made a trip to Soviet Union in March 1991, and after his first meeting with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, became an outspoken opponent of aid to Yeltsin's regime. An advocate supporting Russia's transition toward political and economic freedom, the senior statesman made annual visits to the country beginning in 1992, the year this book was published. In original dust jacket, which is lightly soiled at bottom margin on front cover and on back cover. Book is internally sound.