July 2018
Michael McFaul: From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin?s Russia.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Reviewer: Laina Farhat-Holzman
For those of you who keep up with TV news, Michael McFaul is the go-to person for insight into Russia. He served as American Ambassador from 2008-2010 during the Obama presidency, a somewhat rare appointment of an academic expert rather than political appointee. But he was not new to the White House, having been an advisor to George Bush?s administration before being tapped by Obama.
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