Ambassador Jack Matlock: How Myths and Ideologies Led America Astray and How to Return to Reality

Ambassador Jack Matlock discusses his highly acclaimed latest book, Superpower Illusions: How Myths and Ideologies Led America Astray—and How to Return to Reality, published in 2010 by Yale University Press. This book corrects some pervasive myths about the Cold War, and re-examines Soviet-American diplomacy of the 1980s. In reassing the key decisions made by Reagan and Gorbachev that led to a thawing of relations between the two countries, Matlock critiques the analyses of other authors like Francis Fukuy