The Back Channel

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Former Deputy Secretary of State and later CIA Director William J. Burns's memoir of more than three decades as an American diplomat—from the end of the Cold War and relations with Putin's Russia to the Arab Spring and the secret nuclear talks with Iran—and a case for the importance of diplomacy.

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• Hillary Clinton: “His new book, The Back Channel, is another great act of public service in its wise and plainspoken account of the power and purpose of American diplomacy.”