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Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
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A dramatic account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the turning point in the Cold War - by Ken Adelman, Reagan's arms control director and a key player in that weekend's world-changing events.
In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a 48-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues, including SDI ("Star Wars") and the possibility of eliminating all nuclear weapons. Both men were at the height of their powers, and they had a rare opportunity to move toward peace. The meeting led to negotiations and concessions that neither side had predicted - and laid the groundwork for the most sweeping arms accord in history, adopted the following year, and the end of the Soviet Union a half decade later.
From his position as a participant in these historic events, Ken Adelman is able to reveal the motivations, relationships, and conversations that led to the summit's breakthroughs. His analysis as both a participant and historian provides an invaluable perspective on this uniquely significant episode.
Scrupulously researched and based on now-declassified documents, Reagan at Reykjavik tells the gripping tale of the weekend that changed the world. Adelman provides an honest, laser-etched portrait of President Reagan at one of his finest and most challenging moments - and, indisputably, one of the most significant triumphs of his presidency.
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An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who - in a career of service to the country - was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De David en 01-26-15
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Three Days in Moscow
- Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
- De: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrado por: Bret Baier
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today. On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkable - yet now largely forgotten - speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Brian W. Barton en 05-20-18
De: Bret Baier, y otros
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Moscow, December 25,1991
- The Last Day of the Soviet Union
- De: Conor O'Clery
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gorbachev is GOD!
- De Rodney en 03-07-19
De: Conor O'Clery
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Days of Fire
- Bush and Cheney in the White House
- De: Peter Baker
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 29 h y 15 m
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Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A balanced account of the W and Cheney White House
- De Scott en 11-15-13
De: Peter Baker
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The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 22 h
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The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging subject, but fact-checking needed
- De loix en 04-25-12
De: Nancy Gibbs, y otros
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Gorbachev
- His Life and Times
- De: William Taubman
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 32 h y 46 m
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When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Man Who Changed The Course Of History
- De Jean en 12-30-17
De: William Taubman
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Berlin 1961
- Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- De: Frederick Kempe
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 20 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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A former Wall Street Journal editor and the current president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, Frederick Kempe draws on recently released documents and personal interviews to re-create the powder keg that was 1961 Berlin. In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one misstep away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am scared in retrospect
- De theenglishmajor en 06-26-11
De: Frederick Kempe
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The Accidental President
- Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- De: A. J. Baime
- Narrado por: Tony Messano
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional
- De Jean en 11-14-17
De: A. J. Baime
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JFK's Last Hundred Days
- The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
- De: Thurston Clarke
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s final days that asks what might have been. Fifty years after his assassination, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke reexamines the last months of the president’s life to show a man in the midst of great change, both in his family and in the key issues of his day: The Cold War, Civil Rights, and Vietnam, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In Depth and Beautifully Written
- De grace en 06-03-23
De: Thurston Clarke
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The Hawk and the Dove
- Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
- De: Nicholas Thompson
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic political battles that spanned decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Two outstanding people in the US Government
- De Nina Donnard en 11-05-09
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 40 h y 29 m
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best of all Biographies
- De David C. Daggett en 12-14-13
De: Robert A. Caro
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Three Days in January
- Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
- De: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrado por: Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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In this debut history from one of America's most influential political journalists, Bret Baier casts the three days between Dwight Eisenhower's prophetic "farewell address" on the evening of January 17, 1961, and his successor John F. Kennedy's inauguration on the afternoon of January 20 as the final mission of one of modern America's greatest leaders.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gently In Manner, Strongly In Deed...
- De Gillian en 01-20-17
De: Bret Baier, y otros
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 34 h y 30 m
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By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A dissapointment
- De Mike From Mesa en 12-16-13
De: Walter Isaacson
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In My Time
- A Personal and Political Memoir
- De: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Dick Cheney
- Duración: 20 h
- Versión completa
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In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power. In My Time is truly the last word about an incredible political era, by a man who lived it and helped define it - with courage and without compromise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De reader en 09-05-11
De: Dick Cheney, y otros
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The Wise Men
- Six Friends and the World They Made
- De: Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Reese
- Duración: 33 h y 27 m
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Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar chaos, and whose strong response to Soviet expansionism would leave a legacy that dominates American policy to this day. In April 1945, they converged to advise an untutored new president, Harry Truman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dull with poor narration
- De KD6161 en 03-31-17
De: Evan Thomas, y otros
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The Netanyahu Years
- Translated by Ora Cummings
- De: Ben Caspit
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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A portrait of the current Israeli prime minister, one of Israel's more noticeable leaders in recent decades. Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as prime minister of Israel, the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.
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2 out of 5 stars
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weak
- De kay en 06-11-18
De: Ben Caspit
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The Hopkins Touch
- De: David Roll
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the linchpin in FDR's - and America's - relationships with Churchill and Stalin, and spoke with an authority second only to the president's.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hopkins - the glue of the tripartite coalition
- De Chrissie en 05-19-13
De: David Roll
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Reagan at Reykjavik
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- Danny
- 07-22-15
Great Read
This was a great telling of the Reagan years and the end of the Cold War. I didn't care for the narrator's style - apparently trying to sound like Reagan in a dramatic whisper like performance - but the content was very good and the book well written. An insider's look without the heavy bias you sometimes get in political storytelling.
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- TarverFamily09
- 03-17-18
Interesting
Wish everyone learned about this event more. I have been to Iceland and stopped by the location. Pretty amazing.
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- David
- 01-10-18
President in on it of oReagan - Eight great years!
President Reagan's optimism, vision and love for America were significant factors in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Truly a miracle!
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- Bob Prot
- 11-05-18
Excellent account .
Excellent account of the back and forth between Reagan and the Soviet’s . Really shines at the end of the book in regards to the aftermath and the rise of anti Soviet anti communist sentiments in Europe .
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- MOV
- 11-17-23
Outstanding Tribute
Engaging storyline, illustrative detail, and compelling evidence that indeed, “It can be done.” Bravo Mr, Adelman!
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