FRITZ KRAEMER ON EXCELLENCE: MISSIONARY, MENTOR AND PENTAGON STRATEGIST [Inscribed by Edward L. Rowny]

Author: Hoffmann, Hubertus
Title: FRITZ KRAEMER ON EXCELLENCE: MISSIONARY, MENTOR AND PENTAGON STRATEGIST [Inscribed by Edward L. Rowny]
Publication: New York: World Security Network Foundation, 2004
Edition: Limited First Edition, 1/2000 Copies

Description: Quarto, 204 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with silver lettering and a decorative monocle to front board. Mild bumping to corners of boards. Minor scuffing to cloth. Inscribed by contributor Edward L. Rowny on second free endpaper: "Dear Bill, / Please accept this book as a token of my appreciation for our friendship. Fritz shared your values and was also one of your great admirers. / Best wishes to my favorite non-stovepiper! / Warm regards, Ed Rowny." With a pocket to rear pastedown containing papers and prints from the publisher. Shelved in Case 1 1/2.

NOTES

Fritz Kraemer worked as the Senior Legal Advisor to the League of Nations in the 1930s. After serving in World War II, he acted as Senior Civilian Advisor to the US Army Chief of Staff in the Pentagon until 1978. Kraemer is often credited with discovering Henry Kissinger and influencing the Department of Defense during the Cold War.
Contributor and signer Edward L Rowny served as the US Representative to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. He also served as an advisor on arms control for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Other contributors include Alexander M. Haig, Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant, Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl Prinz von Preussen, and Donald Rumsfeld.

Seller ID: 1390768

Subject: Biography & Autobiography, Dupont Circle, Politics, Government, and Law, Warfare and Conflict