Format:
viii, 596 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln :
,
Illustrationen ;
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21 cm.
Edition:
First Mariner books edition
ISBN:
978-0-547-42306-7
,
978-1-328-51165-2
Content:
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and regimes throughout Eastern Europe and Asia teetered between democratic change and new authoritarian rule. President Bush faced a world in turmoil that might easily have tipped into an epic crisis. As presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this page-turning history, Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. Using handwritten letters and direct conversations--some revealed here fro the first time--with heads of state throughout Asia and Europe, Bush knew when to push, when to cajole, and when to be patient. Based on previously classified documents, and interviews with all the principals, When the World Seemed New is a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of a president with his calm hand on the tiller, guiding the nation from a moment of great peril to the pinnacle of global power. -- Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Engel, Jeffrey A., author When the world seemed new New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 ISBN 978-0-544-93184-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
;
Historische Darstellung
;
Biographischer Beitrag
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780547423067.pdf
Author information:
Engel, Jeffrey A. 1972-
