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100 1 _aEngel, Jeffrey A.
245 1 0 _aWhen the world seemed new :
_bGeorge H. W. Bush and the end of the Cold War /
_cJeffrey A. Engel.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,
_c2017.
300 _aviii, 596 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aSwan song and surprise -- Bush's rise -- Gorbachev at the UN -- "We know what works" -- The pause -- "A special relationship there" -- Cheney rises and the pause ends -- From a funeral to a riot -- Crackdown -- Untying the knot -- Eastern Europe aboil -- Another border opens -- "It has happened" -- Germans pause ... and act -- Malta -- Not one inch eastward -- Camp David -- Concession -- "This will not stand" -- With us, or not against us -- The New World Order -- "Disunion is a fact" -- "I have signed it."
520 _a"Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War. 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 U.S. 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. 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 twenty-first century"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"The untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history--the end of the Cold War--based on unprecedented access to heretofore classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aBush, George,
_d1924-
_xInfluence.
600 1 4 _aBush, George H. W.
_q(George Herbert Walker),
_d1924-2018.
610 2 0 _aNational Security Council (U.S.)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCold War
_xDiplomatic history.
650 4 _aGuerra fría
_xHistoria
_97267
650 0 _aPersian Gulf War, 1991.
650 4 _aGuerra del Golfo Pérsico, 1991
_97268
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_y1989-1993.
651 4 _aEstados Unidos
_xRelaciones exteriores
_y1989-1993
_974
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zSoviet Union.
651 4 _aEstados Unidos
_xRelaciones exteriores
_zUnión Soviética
_96971
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 4 _aUnión soviética
_xRelaciones Exteriores
_zEstados Unidos
_96972
651 0 _aGermany
_xHistory
_yUnification, 1990.
651 4 _aAlemania
_xHistoria
_yUnificación, 1990
_97266
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xHistory
_y1985-1991.
651 4 _aUnión Soviética
_xHistoria
_y1985-1991
_94707
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aEngel, Jeffrey A., author.
_tWhen the world seemed new
_dNew York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
_z9780544931848
_w(DLC) 2017050301
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