Strobe Talbott

Author of At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

About the Author

Strobe Talbott was the architect of the Clinton administrations policy toward Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union. He served as deputy secretary of state for seven years. A former Time magazine columnist and Washington bureau chief, he is the translator-editor of Nikita show more Khruschev's memoirs and is now director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. show less

Includes the names: Strobe Talbot, Strobe Talott, Talbott Strobe, Translated and Edited By Strobe Talbott

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Works by Strobe Talbott

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (2002) 136 copies, 1 review

The Great Experiment (2008) 136 copies

The age of terror : America and the world after September 11 (2001) 87 copies

Deadly gambits : the Reagan administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control (1984) 77 copies

The master of the game : Paul Nitze and the nuclear peace (1988) 73 copies, 1 review

Engaging India : diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb (2004) 68 copies, 2 reviews

Endgame : the inside story of SALT II (1979) 33 copies

The Russians and Reagan (1984) 15 copies

Monnet's Brandy and Europe's fate : a determined Frenchman's vision of integration serves as a guide to ending the Eurozone crisis (2014) 3 copies

Era do Terror, A (2002) 1 copy

Our founders' warning : the age of reason meets the Trump (2020) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Khrushchev Remembers (1970) — Editor and Translator; Traducteur du russe à l'anglais, some editions — 602 copies, 6 reviews

Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974) — Editor and Translator — 161 copies, 1 review

Khrushchev remembers : the glasnost tapes (1990) — Foreword, some editions — 121 copies

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Legal name: Talbott, Nelson Strobridge, III
Birthdate: 1946-04-25
Gender: male
Education: Yale College (BA ∙ 1968)
University of Oxford (MA ∙ 1971)
Yale University (MA ∙ 1976)
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
Occupations: foreign policy analyst
journalist
diplomat
Organizations: Brookings Institution
US State Department
Time magazine
Awards and honors: Rhodes Scholar
Scholar of the House, Yale College
Relationships: Talbott, Nelson Strobridge, II (father)
Talbott, Jo (mother)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Places of residence: Dayton, Ohio, USA
England, UK
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Dilip-Kumar 555 reviews

Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb by Strobe Talbott

An account of the author's engagement with the Indian leadership, mainly his interactions with Jaswant Singh, the foreign minister in Vajpayee's cabinet. Written in a direct and easy style, the book gives a rare indide view on how India and the US navigated their often troubled relationship through the formidable shoals of the test nuclear explosions carried out by India and Pakistan, the Kargil conflict, terrorist attacks, and more.

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Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb by Strobe Talbott