Description
Octavo, 604pp. Hardcover, black cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Laid-in purchase reciept from The National Archives, dated 1996. Publishers dust jacket, fine condition, $30.00 retail price on front flap. Signed by Robert Gates on the title page, dated “5-6-96.”
Comments: Robert M. Gates wrote “From The Shadows” in 1996, shortly after finishing his service as the Director of Central Intelligence. In the interim he would serve as the President of Texas A&M. In 2006, President Geroge W. Bush would ask him to replace Donald Rumsfeld as the Secretary of Defense. In 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama would ask Secretary Gates to stay on as the Secretary of Defense, making him the only Secretary of Defense to serve two presidents of different parties. He retired in 2011, after the successful raid on the compund of Osama Bin Laden.
