Michael Beschloss, Strobe Talbott

At the Highest Levels (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The landmark story of Bush-Gorbachev diplomacy: "No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy" (Time). December 1989. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms. And the USSR was falling apart. But the peaceful end of the Cold War was far from assured, requiring the leaders of rival superpowers to look beyond the animosities of the past and embrace an uncertain future. At the Highest Levels is the fascinating story of that unlikely partnership, a real-time exposé of the negotiations between US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Granted extraordinary access to private conversations and closed-door meetings at the Kremlin, White House, Pentagon, CIA, and KGB, Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott reveal the high-stakes international diplomacy that ended the nuclear arms race and decades of proxy wars. The result is "an accurate first draft of the Cold War's last days," wrote David Remnick in the New Yorker, "filled with gaudy historical riches." Each an acclaimed author in his own right, Beschloss and Talbott together deliver journalism at its best: an "intimate and utterly absorbing" record of this critical meeting of minds (The New York Times).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504039345
• Artikelnr.: 45518661

Autorenporträt

Michael Beschloss is a historian and the New York Times-bestselling author of nine books, including Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (1980); Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair (1986); The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991); The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany (2002); and Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 (2007). Born in Chicago and educated at Williams College and Harvard University, Beschloss is a contributor to NBC News, PBS NewsHour, and the New York Times, and has been called "the nation's leading presidential historian" by Newsweek. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.