Marvin Kalb — A Different Russia - with Ted Koppel

In the early 1960’s, the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kalb brought the excitement of a young American journalist to Moscow, where he kept a record of his daily CBS broadcasts on the building confrontation between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and American President John F. Kennedy. Kalb, who spoke the language, covered both leaders at the Vienna summit, the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crisis, when the threat of nuclear war hovered over the world. This unusual memoir, very personal but also professional, recaptures these fascinating encounters in Russian-American relations. Eye-catching is the surprising comparison they evoke with the perilous Putin era, when a Kremlin leader regularly turns his back on the West rather than, like Khrushchev, leader of a “different Russia,” pursues his aims, yet open to compromise and hope for better times. For more than 70 years, Marvin Kalb has been a journalist, teacher and writer. An award-winning author of 17 books, Kalb is the Murrow Professor emeritus at Harvard, founding Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, former CBS and NBC Diplomatic Correspondent. Kalb has Gold Emmy for 'excellence in journalism' and is a proud member of Nixon's enemies list. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9798989118366?ic_referral=x54AMugIiqu2h-w--PQ1xADWuhoWb6yVgbWcUbV9D2AwMxaHuKKa9UXcp8qjLuMcnUOrGO8f2GZK3p1XeHV_9yK7Gsd5mXEEYQHu6uo81PbiW39RTPXV8HigbF0IzrPrlpnHvA Kalb is in conversation with Ted Koppel, one of the premier journalists of our time, the founding anchor of the ABC program Nightline, an author, and a contributing correspondent to CBS's Sunday Morning. *recorded 1/5/2025