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Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Oberdorfer covered most of the high-level exchanges of the last decade between the United States and the Soviet Union and interviewed the major participants. In this lengthy chronicle, he presents an insider's view of the summit meetings and behind-the-scenes maneuvers that drastically changed the relations between the two superpowers. Gorbachev is identified as the prime agent and apostle of change in his...

This book explores the interrelationship between the option and experience of motherhood and the experience of mental breakdown as vividly communicated by 20th-century women writers. The focus is on three writers--Sylvia Plath, Marie Cardinal, and Margaret Atwood--but others are included, such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and Emma Santos. Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness calls attention to the ways in which...