Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996
The Go-Between
By Jack F. Matlock
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents
by Anatoly Dobrynin
Times Books, 672 pp., $30.00
Anatoly Dobrynin is by all odds the most conspicuous diplomat of this century. For twenty-five years of cold war tension he was the representative of one of the two superpowers in the capital of the other. Remarkably, he managed not only to satisfy a succession of Soviet leaders whose ignorance of the United States was matched only by their suspicion of it and hostility to it but also to ingratiate himself into the confidence of one American president after another. In this respect, his achievement has no parallel in modern diplomacy.
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