Volume 35, Number 14 · September 29, 1988
The Strange Case of William Bullitt
By Ronald Steel
So Close to Greatness: A Biography of William C. Bullitt
by Will Brownell, by Richard N. Billings
Macmillan, 368 pp., $24.95
American attitudes toward Soviet Russia since the Revolution have at times been subject to sudden and often puzzling changes. This is one of those times. Hardly more than two years ago the Soviet Union was perceived by President Reagan with the apparent approval of the American people as the focal point of evil in the modern world. Today it is considered a fellow victim of the arms race and partner in the search to escape the cold war. How long this will last, one would be foolhardy to predict. This is, after all, not the first time we have heard that the cold war is over—as though it were merely an unfortunate misunderstanding.
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