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From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" ( The Atlantic )—a man who served five presidents and ten secretaries of state—comes an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world. Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time—from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post–Cold War relations with Putin's Russia, from post–9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Burns is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished and admired American statesmen of the last half century. Upon his retirement in 2014, Secretary John Kerry said Burns belonged on "a very short list of American diplomatic legends," alongside George Kennan. In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of...

Author

William J. Burns, Ambassador William J. Burns

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9785961432367

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (403 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14