The USA Up Close"Seeing ourselves through others' eyes is often instructive[Prime Minister Giulio] Andreotti, a fixture of postwar Italian government, brings [to this examination of U. S. politics] a keen mind and the perspective of a political system in which charisma is suspect" Foreign Affairs "Rich, not only in the usual anecdotes of the author's encounters with famous Americans, but also in reflections on the moments that molded the extraordinary relationship