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Tear down this wall a city, a president, and the speech that ended the Cold War

Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Main Author: Ratnesar, Romesh.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Reagan, Ronald > Oratory.
Reagan, Ronald > Political and social views.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, > 1931-
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Germany > Berlin.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Cold War.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Better than a war
  • The last best hope
  • Ash heap of history
  • Fireside talks
  • The dinner party
  • "A missed opportunity"
  • The wall must go
  • The sign of the cross
  • Mikhail and Ron
  • "That magic line"
  • Appendix: Remarks on East-West relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin.

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