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The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By Burns, William J.
- ISBN
- 9780525508861 9780525508878
- Publisher
- Random
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Reviewed on April 1, 2019 | Diplomatic Ties
Career diplomat Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, offers a nuanced assessment of post-Cold War overseas ventures based on recently declassified memos and cables. His account compares with Madeleine Albright's Madam Secretary and Condoleezza Rice's No Higher Honor as well as George Packer's Our Man. Burns summarizes his time as a foreign service office beginning in 1982 and subsequent...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
