When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547423063 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Born above the Mason-Dixon line, he now lives and teaches in Dallas, Texas.. ENGEL is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He has has authored or edited ten books on American foreign policy, including The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 and The China Diary of George H. JEFFREY A. Bush: The Making of a Global President. Educa
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. Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. president faced such opportunities and challenges. As the presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this page-turning history, behind closed doors from the Oval Office to the Kremlin, George H. 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 twenty-first century.. 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. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of
W. Born above the Mason-Dixon line, he now lives and teaches in Dallas, Texas.. Bush: The Making of a Global President. ENGEL is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Educated at Cornell, Oxford, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale University. About the AuthorJEFFREY A. He has has authored or edited ten books on American foreign policy, including The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 and The China Diary of George H