Beyond Peace [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Nixon, Richard M.

Verlag: Random House, New York, 1994

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition white boards, maroon cloth spine, gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by President Richard Nixon; Author Dedication; Author's Note and Index. A short neatly scripted gift inscription at the upper edge of the inner front board. "Beyond Peace is a manifesto for a new America, written with visionary insight and a realistic idealism by the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Richard Nixon offers a new agenda for the United States as it defines its role in the complex post-Cold War era. The collapse of communism, he argues, has offered the United States a unique opportunity for achieving an American renewal. The ultimate test of a nation's character is not just how it responds to advesity in war, but how it meets and masters the challenge of peace: During the Cold War, we sought a peace with justice. If America is to remain a great nation, we now need a mission beyong peace. Nixon charts the course America should take in the future to ensure that the opportunities of this new era beyond peace are not lost. With his unrivaled experience in foreign affairs, he addresses the key issues facing the United States today: why the United States should continue to play the leading role on the world stage, and what our policies should be toward Russia, Europe, China, Japan, and the Middle East. Nixon's answers are informed by a depth of knowledge gained over many years as a statesman in the international arena. His intimate portraits of world leaders, past and present, offer us a bird's-eye view of leadership and international politics. Turning to America, the former President perceives a crisis of spirit that extends beyond foreign affairs. It manifests itself in crime, in education, in race relations, in a selective moralism, in a notion of rights without responsibility, and most of all in a corrosive entitlement mentality that he describes as "one of the greatest threats to our fiscal health, our moral fiber, and our ability to renew our nation." This book challenges us to seek a goal higher than peace alone. It must be a mission that will unify and inspire the country without war, built on peace but able to transcend it. Beyond Peace is Richard Nixon's tenth - and possibly most provocative - book." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "One Iran and Iraq: The United States should adpot a policy of isolation and containment toward both. The objective should be to give both countries problems at home so that they cannot cause problems abroad." On Entitlements: "All Americans should have an equal opportunity to earn the good things of life. But except for those who are unable to do so, they are not entitled to receive those good things from the earnings of others." On Cuba: What has worked in China now has the best chance to work in Cuba. We should drop the economic embargo and open the way to trade, investment, and economic interaction, while insisting that ideas and information be allowed to flow as freely as goods." On America's Greatest Challenge: "We hear too much today about how to reinvent government and not enough about how to reduce it. Our aim should not be to make government more efficient in doing what it should not have tried to do in the first place." - excerpt from the rear outer jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008276

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Beyond Peace [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Verlag: Random House, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Carpenter, Andy (jacket design); Klein, Bernard (book design)

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition