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100 1  Talbott, Strobe, |d1946-
245 14 The Russia hand : |ba memoir of presidential diplomacy / |cStrobe Talbott.
250    1st ed.
260    New York : |bRandom House, |cc2002.
300    x, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : |bill. ; |c25 cm.
504    Includes bibliographical references and index.
520    By the end of Bill Clinton’s second term he met with his Kremlin counterparts more often than had all of his predecessors from Harry Truman to George Bush combined. With Bill Clinton at every step was Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state whose expertise was the former Soviet Union. Talbott was Clinton’s old friend, one of his most trusted advisers, a frequent envoy on the most sensitive of diplomatic missions and, as this book shows, a sharp-eyed observer. The Russia Hand is without question among the most candid, intimate and illuminating foreign-policy memoirs ever written in the long history of such books. With the scope of nearly a decade, it reveals the hidden play of personalities and the closed-door meetings that shaped the most crucial events of our time, from NATO expansion, missile defense and the Balkan wars to coping with Russia’s near-meltdown in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The book is dominated by two gifted, charismatic and flawed men, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, who quickly formed one of the most intense and consequential bonds in the annals of statecraft. It also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after September 11, 2001.


580    Donation of Anatole Shub
600 10 Clinton, Bill, |d1946-
600 10 Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, |d1931-2007.
600 10 Talbott, Strobe, |d1946-
650  0 Diplomats |zUnited States |vBiography.
650  0 Political consultants |zUnited States |vBiography.
651  0 United States |xForeign relations |zRussia (Federation)
651  0 Russia (Federation) |xForeign relations |zUnited States.
651  0 United States |xForeign relations |y1993-2001.
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