Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, both at the University of Virginia. His books and essays focus on critical episodes in American and world history. A former civil rights attorney and career diplomat, he has also served at all levels of American government. He was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and, before that, directed the Carter-Ford commission on federal election reform. He has worked on international policy in each of the five administrations from Reagan through Obama.
Condoleezza Rice was the sixty-sixth US secretary of state and the first black woman to hold that office. Prior to that, she was the first woman to serve as national security adviser. She is a professor at Stanford University and cofounder of RiceHadleyGates LLC. Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011), Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010), Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom (2017), and Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity (2018).
"Zelikow and Rice's thoughtful and honest assessment, largely
avoiding wonkishness, lays a clear through line from the diplomatic
successes of the 1980s and '90s to the political environment of
today."--Publishers Weekly
PRAISE FOR PHILIP ZELIKOW AND CONDOLEEZZA RICE:
"Zelikow and Rice have drawn on thousands of still-classified
documents in the American archives. But their industry has not
stopped there: to tell the Soviet and German sides of the story,
they consulted the East German and Russian archives and interviewed
a host of European leaders. The quality of their writing and the
depth of their research ensure that their exemplary study will
serve as the starting point for all future work on German foreign
policy after the Cold War."--New York Times Book Review
"An important behind-the-scenes account of how East Germany was
folded into West Germany at breakneck speed -- an event that
precipitated the demise of the Soviet Union."--The New Yorker
"For the first time, the inside story -- what the policymakers
thought and did behind the scenes -- is recounted by two
participants, using interviews and secret documents...[The book]
conveys the sweeping changes devised by a handful of leaders and
their aides as they sought to capitalize on a rare, momentary
acceleration of history. It also captures the candid exchanges
among leaders about long-range fundamentals in
Europe."--International Herald Tribune
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