The rebellion of Ronald Reagan : a history of the end of the Cold War /
Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann finally answers the troubling questions about Reagan's actual role in the crumbling of Soviet power; and concludes that by recognizing the significance of Gorbachev, Reagan helped bring the Cold War to a close.
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New York :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Two anti-communists
- Clandestine visit
- "It's time to stroke Ronnie"
- Two schools of thought
- Evil empire
- Nixon detects Gorbachev's "steel fist"
- Abolition
- Conservative uproar
- The conversation
- Reversal of roles
- Informal adviser
- A new friend
- Banned from the land of the firebird
- War scare
- Improbable emissary
- Hunger for religion
- An arrest and its consequences
- Keep her away
- Carlucci's notes
- Berlin
- The speech
- Twenty-fifth anniversary
- Day visit of a presidential candidate
- "He blew it"
- Anti-Soviet jokes
- The orator and his writers
- One night free in West Berlin
- Competing drafts
- Warsaw pact
- "I think we'll leave it in"
- Rock concert
- Venetian villa
- Brandenburg Gate
- Why not "Mr. Honecker"?
- On his own
- Summits
- "Quit pressing"
- An arms deal and its opponents
- Shultz's pitch
- The grand tour rejected
- Of Dan Quayle and Errol Flynn
- Gorbachev in Washington
- Making a treaty look easy
- The no-so-evil empire
- Bush v. Reagan
- The wall will stand for "100 years."