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When the world seemed new George H. W. Bush and the end of the Cold War

"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"--

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Main Author: Engel, Jeffrey A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2017.
Subjects:
Bush, George, > 1924- > Influence.
United States > Foreign relations > 1989-1993.
Cold War > Diplomatic history.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Germany > History > Unification, 1990.
Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991.
Persian Gulf War, 1991.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Swan 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".

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