Power & Pragmatism: The Memoirs of Malcolm Rifkind (slight shelf wear) by Malcolm Rifkind

34 in stock

165mm x 241mm x 42mm

Pages: 352

Sir Malcolm Rifkinds political career has been as glittering as it has been long-lived. Indeed, as a minister for eighteen years, he has seen longer uninterrupted service than anyone since Lord Palmerston in the early nineteenth century.
In both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence, during some of the most turbulent years of the late twentieth century, he had a ringside seat at Margaret Thatchers historic summit with President Gorbachev, was in charge of British troops during the Bosnian conflict, helped change Polish history during the Cold War, and held secret negotiations on the Falklands with the Argentinians. For his robustness against the Kremlins aggression in Ukraine, he is currently banned from Russia by President Putin.
Now, from the man himself, comes the inside story of all those affairs and more. From Rifkinds battles with Margaret Thatcher over Scotland to his five pivotal years as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, overseeing GCHQ, working with MI6, meeting the CIA, Power and Pragmatism is the shrewd, humorous and frank memoir of a genuine political heavyweight.