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The Back Channel - A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal Tarot card Talbott's ingenious new bookA masterful diplomatic memoir (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leadersan impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly volatile world. Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential