The Economic Summit; A Pictorial History of the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations 1975-1990 Houston 1990

Charlottesville. VA: Thompson-Grant, Inc, 1990. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 12 inches. 80 pages. Illustrations (69 full color and 5 black and white). DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. This was produced by the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations in cooperation with the Houston Economic Summit Host Committee. Letter from Lee Atwater, Chairman, Republican National Committee to a non-profit organizations providing this book for their fund-raising auction. Lee Atwater's signature appears to be hand signed. This has sections on Rambouillet 1975, San Juan 1976, London, 1977, Bonn 1978, Tokyo, 1979, Venice, 1980, Ottawa, 1981, Versailles, 1982, Williamsburg, 1983, London, 1984, Bonn 1985, Tokyo, 1986, Venice 1987, Toronto, 1988, Paris 1989, and Houston, 1980. The forum originated with a 1975 summit hosted by France that brought together representatives of six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, thus leading to the name Group of Six or G6. The summit came to be known as the Group of Seven, or G7, in 1976 with the addition of Canada. The 1st G6 summit took place on 15-17 November 1975, in Rambouillet, France. The Group of Six (G6) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. This summit, and the others which would follow, were in fact a kind of frustrated rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was an element in the genesis of cooperation between France's President and West Germany's Chancellor as they conceived the first summit of the G6.