Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State in the Clinton administration and longtime Friend of Bill, has written his memoirs. They are extremely well-written, fascinating, informative, and a marvelous addition to the historical record. They give us a ringside seat at U.S.-Russian relations in the 1990s. There were two great problems in Russian economic reform. The first was that nobody knew what to do: nobody had ever undertaken a transition from socialism to capitalism before. The second was that the Russian political nation did not know what it wanted to do...

During the 1990s, U.S. economic growth by far outstripped that of the other major industrial economies.