Word: beschloss
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AUTHORS: MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS AND STROBE TALBOTT...
Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott describe in unprecedented detail, replete with private conversations and secret memoranda, three years of negotiations between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev -- talks that climaxed in the end of the cold war. No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy -- particularly only a year after the events themselves have concluded...
Like other journalistic histories, this one is based on unnamed sources, but Beschloss, a diplomatic historian, and Talbott, a former TIME columnist who will be coordinating the Clinton Administration's policy toward Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union, seem to avoid the pitfall -- common to this kind of work -- of overreliance on a single source...
...addition to translating and editing two volumes of Khrushchev's memoirs, Strobe has written five books on the relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S. His sixth, At the Highest Levels -- The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War, co-authored with historian Michael Beschloss, will be published by Little, Brown this month...
...Beschloss and I were in Moscow last December researching a book we have been writing on the end of the cold war. On Dec. 14, one of Gorbachev's closest aides asked us to convey a message to James Baker, who was due in the Soviet capital the next day. The approach was less peculiar than it may sound. The Soviet Union was disintegrating; its last leader, then 11 days from resigning, was already in limbo. Gorbachev and his loyalists believed that the U.S. embassy had long since become a nest of Yeltsinites and would not be a reliable channel...