Illustrations

3.1 President Dwight D. Eisenhower

3.2 President John F. Kennedy

3.3 Henry Kissinger and Andrei Gromyko

4.1 Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin

6.1 Fidel Castro arrives in Washington, DC, in April 1959

6.2 Che Guevara, the iconic image of the Cuban Revolution and more famous dead than alive

7.1 Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at the American exhibit in Moscow in 1959

9.1 Robert McNamara

9.2 Leonid Brezhnev, Richard Nixon, Andrei Gromyko and US Secretary of State William P. Rogers, 19 June 1973

9.3 Mao and Nixon

9.4 Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai

9.5 President Lyndon B. Johnson

9.6 Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II

10.1 President Jimmy Carter

12.1 Andrei Gromyko

13.1 Margaret Thatcher

13.2 President George H. W. Bush

13.3 President Ronald Reagan and President Mikhail Gorbachev

13.4 Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa Gorbacheva and the author

13.5 Deng Xiaoping

13.6 President Ronald Reagan

13.7 Fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of 9–10 November 1989

14.1 Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

15.1 Kim Jong-un