Kenneth Lee Adelman is an American diplomat, political writer, policy analyst and William Shakespeare historian. 

Adelman was the Arms Control Director for President Reagan. He served on the Defense Policy Board during President George W. Bush’s Administration and the Board of the National Center for Counter-Terrorism during President Barack Obama’s Administration.

Adelman was one of a handful of people present at theReykjavik Summit inReykjavik, Iceland. The Reykjavik summit was a superpower in 1986 where President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev took their gloves off and came to the table to talk nuclear weapons. 

Dr. Adelman has served on the board of Trustees of Freedom House, was a translator for the late Muhammad Ali during, “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Africa, was a professor of Shakespeare at Georgetown University, and author of six books, most recently, Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours that Ended the Cold War. That story, of the historic superpower summit in Iceland in 1986, is being turned into an HBO feature film.

Adelman talks with us about negotiation techniques , leadership skills that he learned directly from person observations of President Ronald Reagan and much much more. 

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