The most compelling biography I have read in years Max Hastings Sunday Times
Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs and a Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously at Cornell University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, including Embers of War ("remarkable"- Economist, "monumental"- WSJ)whichwon the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.