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"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"--
"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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Cold War, Diplomatic history, National Security Council (U.S.), Persian Gulf War, 1991, Influence, Foreign relations, History, Bush, george, 1924-2018, National security council (u.s.), United states, foreign relations, 1989-1993, Cold war, United states, foreign relations, soviet union, Soviet union, foreign relations, united states, Germany, history, unification, 1990, Soviet union, history, 1953-1991, Persian gulf war, 1991, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, United States, Diplomacy, Diplomatic relations, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978, Persian Gulf War (1991) fast (OCoLC)fst01058380, Unification of Germany (1990) fast (OCoLC)fst01355185People
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