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Title: When the World Seemed New
Subtitle: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Author: Jeffrey A. Engel
Narrator: Bob Souer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
The fall of Communism brilliantly recounted in a page-turner you can't put down.
The most eloquent and mesmerizing history book about an ineloquent president who found himself at a critical turning point in the 20th century. Jeffrey Engel, the Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, has written a page turner more familiar in the fiction genre. Researching the Bush 41 archives, interviewing most of the still living participants and poring through thousands of documents and contemporary news sources, Engel artfully explores the essential conundrum of America's reaction to the cascading fall of Communism. Was it really the end? What if the light at the end of the tunnel is indeed an oncoming train? George H.W. Bush was wise enough to refrain from gloating, and disciplined enough to refrain from embracing Gorbachev's gambit lest it was a trap.
Engel tells the story with great wit and an eye for the absurd. I keep rereading the chapter about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which probably was the result of a tired press secretary mistakenly announcing that the gates would be opened immediately, followed by an unanswered phone call from the Brandenburg Gate commander seeking confirmation. As the rumors spread, the flailing Communist regime was suddenly gripped by terror that controlling the thousands of East Berliners at the gate, and the thousands of West Berliners waiting to embrace them, could end in a river of blood as it had in Tienanmen Square just weeks earlier. And the Communist commander did the unthinkable: he opened the Gate. Within hours, instead of rivers of blood there were thousands of young drunk Germans kissing and dancing on the Wall and passing the bottle to their tormentors who traded The Party for the party. But more than anything the story that Engel weaves is of President Bush, in the face of Right Wing resistance, cautiously embracing the realization that the end of the Cold War was at hand and the challenge of not getting in it's way.When the World Seemed New: George H. W.
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Title: When the World Seemed New
Subtitle: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Author: Jeffrey A. Engel
Narrator: Bob Souer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
The fall of Communism brilliantly recounted in a page-turner you can't put down.
The most eloquent and mesmerizing history book about an ineloquent president who found himself at a critical turning point in the 20th century. Jeffrey Engel, the Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, has written a page turner more familiar in the fiction genre. Researching the Bush 41 archives, interviewing most of the still living participants and poring through thousands of documents and contemporary news sources, Engel artfully explores the essential conundrum of America's reaction to the cascading fall of Communism. Was it really the end? What if the light at the end of the tunnel is indeed an oncoming train? George H.W. Bush was wise enough to refrain from gloating, and disciplined enough to refrain from embracing Gorbachev's gambit lest it was a trap.
Engel tells the story with great wit and an eye for the absurd. I keep rereading the chapter about the fall of the Berlin Wall, which probably was the result of a tired press secretary mistakenly announcing that the gates would be opened immediately, followed by an unanswered phone call from the Brandenburg Gate commander seeking confirmation. As the rumors spread, the flailing Communist regime was suddenly gripped by terror that controlling the thousands of East Berliners at the gate, and the thousands of West Berliners waiting to embrace them, could end in a river of blood as it had in Tienanmen Square just weeks earlier. And the Communist commander did the unthinkable: he opened the Gate. Within hours, instead of rivers of blood there were thousands of young drunk Germans kissing and dancing on the Wall and passing the bottle to their tormentors who traded The Party for the party. But more than anything the story that Engel weaves is of President Bush, in the face of Right Wing resistance, cautiously embracing the realization that the end of the Cold War was at hand and the challenge of not getting in it's way.When the World Seemed New: George H. W.