Books : At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War
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by: Michael R. Beschloss, Strobe Talbott
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.7304709048
EAN: 9780316092821
ISBN: 0316092827
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: 1994-03
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Sales Rank: 267265
Studio: Back Bay Books
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Product Description:
The widely hailed behind-the-scenes history of the Cold War endgame--a book that brilliantly brings to life the private conversations and secret understandings that changed history. 'A highly fluent narrative with the heft and density of history and the emotional resonance of fiction.'--New York Times.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The end of the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
This is an interesting, and surprising book. I was expecting a critique of the first Bush presidency's foreign policy, given author Talbott's credentials (he's a lifelong friend of Clinton and served as Deputy Secretary of State under him). Instead, it's a detailed recounting of the diplomatic negotiations during the last three years of the Soviet Union, culminating with Gorbachev's dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
The book focuses, to a large extent, on the relationships between the men (and ... Read More
Rating: - Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
Beschloss and Talbott spin a tremendously absorbing narrative about the collapse of communism. They describe in detail the summits, conversations and debates that took place between Gorbachev and his foreign minister on one side and George Bush on the other. Their main focus is the foreign policy of the Bush administration. Their prose flows well, their anecdotes are interesting their characters are engaging. They only rarely fall into the trap of overly-journalistic prose. Their description of George ... Read More
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