When the World Seemed New
George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
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Narrateur(s):
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Bob Souer
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Auteur(s):
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Jeffrey A. Engel
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The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein chose to invade Kuwait, China cracked down on its own pro-democracy protesters, and regimes throughout Eastern Europe teetered between democratic change and new authoritarians. Not since FDR in 1945 had a US president faced such opportunities and challenges.
As the presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this hard-to-pause history, behind closed doors from the Oval Office to the Kremlin, George H. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. Distrusted by such key allies as Margaret Thatcher and dismissed as too cautious by the press, Bush had the experience and the wisdom to use personal, one-on-one diplomacy with world leaders. Bush knew when it was essential to rally a coalition to push Iraq out of Kuwait. He managed to help unify Germany while strengthening NATO.
Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and interviews with all of the principals, When the World Seemed New is a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of a president with his hand on the tiller, guiding the nation through a pivotal time and setting the stage for the 21st century.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Drew
- 2017-12-11
A Great History of the End of the Cold War
I saw this book on an advertisement on the Foreign Affairs magazine website and was interested in learning about how Bush Sr. handled the epic events of the late 80's and early 90's. However, this book is much more focused on the events themselves and America's reaction to them more broadly than Bush himself. He's not much more prominent than his other senior administration officials at any given point in the book. Despite that, which may disappoint some, the book is still a great perspective on how the American government under Bush Sr. reacted to Gorbachev, the reform revolutions in Eastern Europe and Tienanmen Square.
The Performance is great until around chapter 5 where I don't know what happened but the reader gets much more monotone and his breathing much more noticeable. It's still serviceable however, and is never too bad that you lose attention.
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