The book An Impossible Dream tells the story of the meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik. This meeting was an attempt to develop a nuclear deal between two countries, and the audacious goal of having all nuclear weapons removed within ten years of the meeting was on the table. The book tells this story from both the American and Soviet perspectives about the preparations that were involved in these talks as well as each country's goals for the summit. The book attempts to stay neutral throughout, which I appreciated as a historian. However, I would have preferred to see more analysis of these events and perspectives in the books. I also found some of the grammatical changes due to the translation distracting. However, this book tells the story of an important attempt during the Cold War to end nuclear proliferation, and it is important to keep these ideas in mind.