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100 1 $aMann, Jim,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88193086
245 14 $aThe rebellion of Ronald Reagan :$ba history of the end of the Cold War /$cJames Mann.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2009.
300 $axx, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-379) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tTwo Anti-Communists --$gPt. II.$tInformal Adviser --$gPt. III.$tBerlin --$gPt. IV.$tSummits.
520 1 $a"Several competing mythologies have developed about Reagan's role in the end of the Cold War. Was he a brilliant strategist whose confrontation and pugnacity "won" America's four-decade conflict with the Soviet Union? Or was the fortieth president merely lucky - or utterly irrelevant? In fact, the true story is a complex blend of both these conclusions, with a strong mixture of secret, personalized diplomacy at home and abroad that has largely been ignored by historians until now." "Enter James Mann, whose earlier bestselling book about George W. Bush's war cabinet, Rise of the Vulcans, was praised as "lucid, shrewd and, after so many high-decibel screeds from both the right and left, blessedly level-headed ... necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding the back story of how and why America came to deal with the rest of the world." In The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Mann directs his keen analysis to Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. Drawing on new interviews and previously unavailable documents, Mann offers a fresh and compelling narrative - a new history assessing what Reagan did, and did not do, to help bring America's conflict with the Soviet Union to a close." "As he did in Rise of the Vulcans, Mann sheds new light on the hidden aspects of American foreign policy. He reveals previously undisclosed secret messages between Reagan and Moscow; internal White House intrigues; and pitched private and public battles with leading eminences such as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who repeatedly questioned Reagan's unfolding diplomacy with Mikhail Gorbachev. He derails the background and fierce debate over Reagan's famous Berlin Wall speech and shows how it fit into Reagan's policies. Ultimately, Mann dispels the facile typecasting of Reagan, offering a complete, satisfying, and, for many, utterly surprising new interpretation of these history-changing events."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aReagan, Ronald$xPolitical and social views.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1981-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140105
650 0 $aCold War.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005637
650 0 $aPolitical leadership$zUnited States$vCase studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107090
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106470
600 10 $aNixon, Richard M.$q(Richard Milhous),$d1913-1994$xInfluence.
600 10 $aMassie, Suzanne$xInfluence.
600 10 $aReagan, Ronald$xOratory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140115
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125763
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008029029-d.html
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