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2-15-17

Review of Richard Moss’s "Nixon’s Backchannel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente"

by Brian Robertson

A taut read running at 396 pages, this book reexamines détente by focusing on the secret back channel maintained by Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.

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Review of Richard Moss’s "Nixon’s Backchannel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente"

by Brian Robertson