... As a nineteen-year-old student, the author made his first visit to the USSR. The chapter describes a brief detention at the Soviet border over a minor mistake in filling out an entry form, first impressions on arriving in Moscow, and the intense interest of their young Soviet guides—once older...

... than joining those calling for “constructive engagement.” This chapter reports on Joseph’s visit to South Africa to observe firsthand the apartheid system euphemistically called separate development. It is a description of both the business environment and the dehumanizing conditions of the time...

... Like Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton was a master at presidential diplomacy. This chapter is a chronicle of his March 1998 visit to South Africa and the many ways in which he charmed critics and made new friends for the United States, opening doors for U.S. business and developing allies...