This book is a fascinating account… and also a recent history of US-India relations. While the proposed economic sanctions in the Pressler Amendment were never fully tested, as it was sabotaged by forces within the Pentagon, its lessons as a template for economic sanctions remain with us.

In telling the tragic story of the Pressler Amendment, which would have prevented Pakistan from taking the nuclear weapons route, Larry Pressler also explains the forces at work that first circumvented the Amendment… and later rolled it back.

Senator Pressler’s new book is an insight into the influence of lobbying on foreign policy and the difficulty in developing a sound foreign policy.

This book provides an eyewitness account of the virtually unchecked power of law firms and lobbying firms usurping the US State Department’s and Congress’s role in making foreign policy, of the unseen money flow that lubricates the entire process, and the real-world damage caused by it all.

Senator Pressler has maintained a long and unique relationship with India… Fundamentally, this book introduces the real Larry Pressler to India.