The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004OX142W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 109 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Diego Trinidad said My favorite Reagan biography. My favorite Reagan biography. No other author tells the story of his crusade against Communism as Kengor does. By showing Reagan's idealism and his well informed anticommunism, Kengor shows how the Cold War was won. Magnificent!. Five Stars Amazon Customer Excellent product. Gerald J Kenney, Jr. said Best Reagan Bio Ever. Best Reagan bio ever written. Thoroughly researched.
Based on extraordinary research, here is a major reassessment of Ronald Reagan's lifelong crusade to dismantle the Soviet Empire, including shocking revelations about the liberal American politician who tried to collude with the USSR to counter Reagan's efforts. Drawing upon reams of newly declassified presidential papers as well as untapped Soviet media archives and new interviews with key players, Kengor traces Reagan's efforts to target the Soviet Union from his days as governor of California to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of what he famously dubbed the "Evil Empire". God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the premier chroniclers of the life and career of the 40th president. Such new finds make The Crusader not just a work of extraordinary history but a work of explosive revelation that will be debated as hotly in 2006 as Reagan's policies were in the 1980s.. With The Crusader, Kengor returns with the one book about Reagan that has not been written: the story of his lifelong crusade against communism and of his dogged and ultimately triumphant effort to overthrow the Soviet Union. The Crusader makes use of key sources from behind the Iron Curtain, including one ke