Book excerpt: "A Different Russia" by Marvin Kalb

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In "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course" (BookBaby), veteran journalist Marvin Kalb writes about the 1963 Cold War summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (which he covered for CBS News), and the idea of a potential thaw in relations between the two superpowers – inconceivable then, even with regard to "a different Russia."

Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Marvin Kalb's commentary about a potential Trump-Putin summit on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 16!