TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann,Jim
TI  - The rebellion of Ronald Reagan: a history of the end of the Cold War 
SN  - 9780670020546
AV  - E 877.2 .M36 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Reagan, Ronald
KW  - Nixon, Richard M.
KW  - Massie, Suzanne
KW  - Reagan, Ronald.
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - United States
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ost-West-Konflikt
KW  - swd
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1981-1989
KW  - Soviet Union
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-379) and index; 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 not-so-evil empire -- Bush v. Reagan -- The wall will stand for "100 years."
N2  - 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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