US Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987-1991) and the author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray -- and How to Return to Reality
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