Книга: David E. Hoffman «The Dead Hand»
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Производитель: "Icon books ltd" The Dead Hand is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative history of Reagan, Gorbachev and the final decade of the Cold War. Washington Post journalist David E. Hoffman draws on exclusive interviews in both Russia and the US, as well as classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, piecing together the first full - and intensely dramatic - account of how the US/Soviet arms race came to a close, and revealing the previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats and spies that made it happen. Издательство: "Icon books ltd" (2018)
ISBN: 978-1-78578-531-3 |
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David E. Hoffman
David E. Hoffman is an American journalist, a Pultizer Prize-winning author, and a contributing editor to the Washington Post and Foreign Policy.[1]
Journalism
David E. Hoffman was born in Palo Alto, Calif., grew up in Delaware and attended the University of Delaware. He came to Washington in 1977 to work for the Capitol Hill News Service. As a member of the Washington bureau of the San Jose Mercury News, he covered Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. In May 1982, he joined The Washington Post to help cover the Reagan White House. He also covered the first two years of the George H.W. Bush presidency. His White House coverage won three national journalism awards.[2]
After reporting on the State Department, he became Jerusalem bureau chief for The Washington Post in 1992. After studying Russian at Oxford University, he began six years in Moscow. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief, and later as foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news.
Hoffman is the author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, published in 2002, and The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy. The Dead Hand is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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