The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
Strobe Talbott$17.00
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "A rich and revealing account of the turbulent relationship between the U.S. and Russia during the first post-Cold War years. . . . Essential for any understanding of this critical and even dangerous period."--Elizabeth Drew "A fascinating memoir of a weirdly unpredictable world."--The New York Review of Books
In the eight years Bill Clinton was president, as Russia lurched from crisis to crisis, each one more horrifying than the last, Clinton and his foreign-policy team found they faced no greater task than helping to keep Russia stable and at peace with herself and her neighbors. Strobe Talbott's mesmerizing account of this struggle reveals what a close-run thing this was, and how much the relationship between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin has been defined by the work of Bill Clinton. Written with a novelistic richness and energy, The Russia Hand is the first great book about war and peace in the post-Cold War world. It is also the one book anyone needs to understand Russia's fateful transformation and future possibilities after ten years as a democracy.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 05/13/2003
ISBN: 9780812968460
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.16w x 1.11d
Review Citations: New York Times 05/25/2003 pg. 24
Business Week 06/30/2003 pg. 20
In the eight years Bill Clinton was president, as Russia lurched from crisis to crisis, each one more horrifying than the last, Clinton and his foreign-policy team found they faced no greater task than helping to keep Russia stable and at peace with herself and her neighbors. Strobe Talbott's mesmerizing account of this struggle reveals what a close-run thing this was, and how much the relationship between George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin has been defined by the work of Bill Clinton. Written with a novelistic richness and energy, The Russia Hand is the first great book about war and peace in the post-Cold War world. It is also the one book anyone needs to understand Russia's fateful transformation and future possibilities after ten years as a democracy.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 05/13/2003
ISBN: 9780812968460
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.16w x 1.11d
Review Citations: New York Times 05/25/2003 pg. 24
Business Week 06/30/2003 pg. 20