ABSTRACT
Arnold Beichman is a senior scholar at the Hoover Institution and a frequent contributor to conservative and neoconservative publications as well as to mainstream ones. He has specialized in foreign affairs and the history of the former Soviet Union. Among his books are The “Other” State Department: The U.S. Mission to the U.N.—Its Role in the Making of Foreign Policy (1968), Andropov: New Challenge to the West (written with Mikhail S. Bernstan, 1983), Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian (1984), and The Long Pretense: Soviet Treaty Diplomacy from 1945 (1997).
