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"Engel's excellent history forms a standing—if unspoken—rebuke to the retrograde nationalism espoused by Donald J. Trump."
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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 for 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.
"An absorbing book."— The Wall Street Journal
"By far the most comprehensive—and compelling—account of these dramatic years thus far."— The National Interest
"A remarkable book about a remarkable person. Southern Methodist University professor Jeffrey Engel describes in engrossing detail the patient and sophisticated strategy President George H.W. Bush pursued as the Cold War came to an end."— The Dallas Morning News
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 for 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.
"An absorbing book."— The Wall Street Journal
"By far the most comprehensive—and compelling—account of these dramatic years thus far."— The National Interest
"A remarkable book about a remarkable person. Southern Methodist University professor Jeffrey Engel describes in engrossing detail the patient and sophisticated strategy President George H.W. Bush pursued as the Cold War came to an end."— The Dallas Morning News
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
ABC (television network), 179, 252, 338
Abkhaz Republic (proposed), 124–25
Aboimov, Ivan, 311
Acheson, Dean, 34, 100, 131, 135, 310
Adenauer, Konrad, 324
Afghanistan
drug trade, 331
Soviet invasion, 14, 57, 71, 378
Ailes, Roger, 378
Akihito, Emperor (Japan), 111
Allentown, Pennsylvania, 56
America. See United States
American exceptionalism, 23, 110, 415–16, 498 n23
Amnesty International, 398, 399
Andreotti, Giulio, 257
Andropov, Yuri, 16, 17, 459
Aquino, Corazon, 266, 295–96, 301, 302
Arbatov, Georgy, 50
“Are We Approaching the End of History?” (seminar), 73–74, 505 n74
Armenia, earthquake, 66–67
Armenians, Baku massacre, 325
Arnstadt, East Germany, 246
Asia. See also specific countries
as American economic rival, 59, 60–61
Bush’s presidential visit to, 99–100
pro-democracy demonstrations, 104–5
“Transpacific Partnership,” 105
Atlantic Charter (1941), 66, 233
Australia
Gulf War, 397
Hirohito’s funeral, 106
Australian Financial Review, 120
Austria
border management, 207–8, 235–236, 241
East German refugees, 241
history with Hungary, 123
Iron Curtain, 226
Kristallnacht, 275
Azerbaijan, 324–25
B
Babi Yar, 451
Bader, Jeff, 184
Baghdad, Iraq, 380, 389, 411, 425, 426, 435, 437
Bakatin, Vadim, 431
Baker, James
on American presence in Europe, 76–77, 78–79
Aquino and, 266
background, 32–33
Baltics, secession of, 363–64, 368, 433
Berlin Wall, fall of, 26...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Introduction
- 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
- Photos
- 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”
- Conclusion
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH