Word: isaacsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
Most of us start our workdays with a familiar routine: sipping coffee, logging on the computer or perhaps watering a plant. TIME's Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and Nation Editor Walter Isaacson talk to each other on the telephone. One such conversation several months ago strayed beyond the standard morning fare of news topics. Discussing Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign policy initiatives, Talbott and Isaacson were suddenly struck by a tantalizing question: What effect will all this have on the cold war? Associate Editor Thomas Sancton, meanwhile, was grappling with another puzzle, this one posed by Gorbachev...
...pursuing the project, Isaacson and Talbott journeyed to the U.S.S.R. for ten days of interviews with Soviet officials and other citizens. It was Isaacson's first visit. "The people we met were as fascinated by the topic as we were," says Isaacson, co-author of a recent book on the beginnings of the cold war, The Wise Men (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). "Before we could pose our questions, they were asking us, 'Can Gorbachev succeed? What do you think will happen...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...