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The Peacemaker
- Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022
A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom around the world.
“Remarkable… a great read.”—Robert Gates • “Mesmerizing… hard to put down.”—Paul Kennedy • “Full of fresh information… will shape all future studies of the role the United States played in ending the Cold War.”—John Lewis Gaddis • “A major contribution to our understanding of the Reagan presidency and the twilight of the Cold War era.”—David Kennedy
With decades of hindsight, the peaceful end of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, most experts believed the Soviet Union was strong, stable, and would last into the next century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in democracy and an abiding belief that Soviet communism—and the threat of nuclear war—must end.
The Peacemaker reveals how Reagan’s White House waged the Cold War while managing multiple crises around the globe. From the emergence of global terrorism, wars in the Middle East, the rise of Japan, and the awakening of China to proxy conflicts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Reagan’s team oversaw the worldwide expansion of democracy, globalization, free trade, and the information revolution. Yet no issue was greater than the Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union. As president, Reagan remade the four-decades-old policy of containment and challenged the Soviets in an arms race and ideological contest that pushed them toward economic and political collapse, all while extending an olive branch of diplomacy as he sought a peaceful end to the conflict.
Reagan’s revolving team included Secretaries of State Al Haig and George Shultz; Secretaries of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Frank Carlucci; National Security Advisors Bill Clark, John Poindexter, and Bud McFarlane; Chief of Staff James Baker; CIA Director Bill Casey; and United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Talented and devoted to their president, they were often at odds with one another as rivalries and backstabbing led to missteps and crises. But over the course of the presidency, Reagan and his team still developed the strategies that brought about the Cold War’s peaceful conclusion and remade the world.
Based on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents and interviews with senior Reagan officials, The Peacemaker brims with fresh insights into one of America’s most consequential presidents. Along the way, it shows how the pivotal decade of the 1980s shaped the world today.
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"[A] deeply informed and gracefully written account…. [Inboden] makes vividly clear how Reagan conducted the Cold War while contending with a host of other harrowing foreign policy issues…. Superbly invokes the peril and uncertainty of the era.”—The Washington Post
“William Inboden’s masterly diplomatic history The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink reveals the qualities that made Reagan an extraordinary president who established the conditions for the collapse of Soviet communism… this comprehensive and judicious book shows what is possible when a president understands the symmetry of American interests and American ideals.”—The Wall Street Journal
"William Inboden has produced the definitive account of how Ronald Reagan negotiated a peaceful end to the Cold War... [a] masterly work."—National Review
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Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories - based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents - of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today.
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Excellent, important book, bad narration.
- De Richard L. Hubbell en 02-06-20
De: Fred Kaplan
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Known and Unknown
- A Memoir
- De: Donald Rumsfeld
- Narrado por: Donald Rumsfeld
- Duración: 30 h y 10 m
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A powerful memoir from the late former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history. Both a fascinating narrative and an unprecedented glimpse into history, Known and Unknown captures the legacy of one of the most influential men in public service.
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Inside view of five decades in politics
- De Brooks en 02-19-11
De: Donald Rumsfeld
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A Failed Empire
- The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
- De: Vladimir Zubok
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the 20th century.
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Focus on the Top Leadership
- De Augustus T. White en 08-13-10
De: Vladimir Zubok
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To Build a Better World
- Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
- De: Philip Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form.
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Valuable historical narrative
- De Jane G. Malkin en 04-07-22
De: Philip Zelikow, y otros
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The War State
- The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963
- De: Michael Swanson
- Narrado por: Larry Wayne
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You can't have big wars without big government. Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy.
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Surprisingly Good
- De ohmie en 04-22-14
De: Michael Swanson
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Pakistan on the Brink
- The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
- De: Ahmed Rashid
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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What are the possibilities—and hazards—facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both of these countries? What does the immediate future hold, and what are America’s choices going forward? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid—Pakistan’s preeminent journalist—takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.
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A Very Long NPR-like Interview and History Lesson
- De Harry Zimmer en 04-23-12
De: Ahmed Rashid
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To Start a War
- How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
- De: Robert Draper
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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Even now, after more than 15 years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.
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If you’ve grown weary of the current GOP administration’s incompetence...
- De Marynelle en 09-04-20
De: Robert Draper
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Putin's World
- Russia Against the West and with the Rest
- De: Angela Stent
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions—and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed.
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More like The West against the world
- De Felis N en 01-18-20
De: Angela Stent
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Master of the Game
- Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
- De: Martin Indyk
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h
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More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk - a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 - has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand.
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Sad in its lack of creativity
- De Uri Pilichowski en 11-16-21
De: Martin Indyk
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The Crusader
- Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
- De: Paul Kengor
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the premier chroniclers of the life and career of the 40th president. With The Crusader, Kengor returns with the one book about Reagan that has not been written: the story of his lifelong crusade against communism and of his dogged and ultimately triumphant effort to overthrow the Soviet Union.
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Whether you like Reagan or not....
- De Daryl en 10-20-13
De: Paul Kengor
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The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.
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Good book, but has some issues
- De Mike From Mesa en 11-10-22
De: Max Hastings
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A World of Trouble
- The White House and the Middle East
- De: Patrick Tyler
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 27 h y 7 m
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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so - and as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of American misadventures in the region, the story of American presidents' dealings there is one of mixed motives, skulduggery, deceit, and outright foolishness, as well as of policymaking and diplomacy.
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Does't deliver
- De Matthew en 02-10-09
De: Patrick Tyler
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Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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Very little about Reagan
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An American Life
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Ronald Reagan is an American success story. From modest beginnings in a small midwestern town to a distinguished career in films and television, he lived the American dream; as governor of California and as the centurys most popular president, he embodied and revitalized the American spirit.
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Restored my hope that American can again be great!
- De Greg en 07-31-12
De: Ronald Reagan
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Reagan
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More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's Reagan stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th president, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. Absorbing and richly detailed, it is a revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and successful run as California governor, and ultimately, his iconic presidency.
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Pretty obvious this was written by a Democrat
- De Amazon Customer en 11-04-19
De: Bob Spitz
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An Ordinary Man
- The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
- De: Richard Norton Smith
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For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time.
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Must-read Polemic
- De allison h eid en 10-17-23
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The Reagan Diaries
- Extended Selections
- De: Ronald Reagan
- Narrado por: Eric Conger
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During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record, the only daily Presidential diary in American history, is available for the first time.
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True American Hero
- De Stephen en 06-21-07
De: Ronald Reagan
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The Peacemaker: Nixon
- The Man, President, and My Friend
- De: Ben Stein
- Narrado por: Fowler
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The Richard Nixon Stein remembers and lovingly describes has almost nothing to do with the Richard Nixon as portrayed in most media. In Stein’s view, Richard Nixon was a born peacemaker, a saint. Stein believes Nixon was tortured, abused, beat up by the Beautiful People, but through it all, above all, he was a peacemaker, a trait he inherited from his Quaker mother.
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Very enlightening
- De Jeremiah Keller en 04-27-24
De: Ben Stein
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Reagan
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Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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Very little about Reagan
- De Jack Merritt en 07-30-15
De: H. W. Brands
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An American Life
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Ronald Reagan is an American success story. From modest beginnings in a small midwestern town to a distinguished career in films and television, he lived the American dream; as governor of California and as the centurys most popular president, he embodied and revitalized the American spirit.
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Restored my hope that American can again be great!
- De Greg en 07-31-12
De: Ronald Reagan
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Reagan
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- De: Bob Spitz
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More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's Reagan stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th president, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. Absorbing and richly detailed, it is a revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and successful run as California governor, and ultimately, his iconic presidency.
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Pretty obvious this was written by a Democrat
- De Amazon Customer en 11-04-19
De: Bob Spitz
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An Ordinary Man
- The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
- De: Richard Norton Smith
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
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For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time.
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Must-read Polemic
- De allison h eid en 10-17-23
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The Reagan Diaries
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During his two terms as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record, the only daily Presidential diary in American history, is available for the first time.
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True American Hero
- De Stephen en 06-21-07
De: Ronald Reagan
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The Peacemaker: Nixon
- The Man, President, and My Friend
- De: Ben Stein
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The Richard Nixon Stein remembers and lovingly describes has almost nothing to do with the Richard Nixon as portrayed in most media. In Stein’s view, Richard Nixon was a born peacemaker, a saint. Stein believes Nixon was tortured, abused, beat up by the Beautiful People, but through it all, above all, he was a peacemaker, a trait he inherited from his Quaker mother.
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Very enlightening
- De Jeremiah Keller en 04-27-24
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The Search for Reagan
- The Appealing Intellectual Conservatism of Ronald Reagan
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Never before has anyone explored the mind, soul, and heart of Ronald Reagan. The Search for Reagan explores the challenges and controversies in Reagan's life and how he successfully dealt with each, depicting a man who was never as conservative as some conservatives wanted him to be, but rather as conservative as he was comfortable being—a man who wanted to win on his own terms and integrity.
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Alien Earths
- The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
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Reagan's Revolution
- The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All
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Craig Shirley relays intriguing, never-before-told anecdotes about Reagan, his staff, the campaign, the media, and the national parties and shows how Reagan, instead of following the lead of the ever-weakening Republican party, brought the party to him and almost single-handedly revived it.
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Killing Jesus
- A History
- De: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Bill O'Reilly
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Millions of people have thrilled to best-selling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, works of nonfiction that have changed the way we view history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly 2,000 years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God.
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The Jesus story in context
- De Kimberly en 10-01-13
De: Bill O'Reilly, y otros
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When the World Seemed New
- George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
- De: Jeffrey A. Engel
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
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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 US president faced such opportunities and challenges. As the presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this hard-to-pause history, behind closed doors, George H. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly.
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The Right Man at the Right Time in the Right Job
- De A. M. en 09-12-18
De: Jeffrey A. Engel
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Speaking My Mind
- Selected Speeches with Personal Reflections
- De: Ronald Reagan
- Narrado por: Ronald Reagan
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time. His name is Ronald Reagan, one of our nation's most powerful and popular Presidents. This extraordinary audio collection includes historical excerpts from selected addresses that span his political career, laying out his vision for America and the world.
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Speaking My Mind
- De KJM en 12-16-07
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To Rescue the Constitution
- George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
- De: Bret Baier
- Narrado por: Bret Baier
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A sweeping narrative ranging from the unsettled early American frontier and the battlefields of the Revolution to the history-making clashes within Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Bret Baier’s To Rescue the Constitution dramatically illuminates the life of George Washington, the Founder who did more than perhaps any other individual to secure the future of the United States.
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Never disappointed in the historical accounts of our countries accounts.
- De Terri Anderson en 10-13-23
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The Lion's Gate
- On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
- De: Steven Pressfield
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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June 5, 1967: The fearsome, Soviet-equipped Egyptian Army and its 1000 tanks are massed on Israel's southern border. Meanwhile, the Syrian Army is shelling the much smaller nation from the north. And to the east, Jordan and Iraq are moving brigades and fighter squadrons into position to attack. Egypt's President Nasser has declared that the Arab world's goal is no less than "the destruction of Israel."
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As close to being there as you can get
- De Andy from FL en 07-13-14
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
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Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st president and his family, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.
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Fair and insightful
- De Jean en 12-02-15
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Rage
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Woodward, the number-one international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
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Knock-down, drag-out
- De LEE en 09-15-20
De: Bob Woodward
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The Peacemaker
- A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
- De: Ken Sande
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In The Peacemaker, Ken Sande presents a comprehensive and practical theology for conflict resolution designed to bring about not only a cease-fire, but also unity and harmony. Sande takes listeners beyond resolving conflicts to true, life-changing reconciliation with family members, coworkers, and fellow believers.
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Abridged Version
- De Dirrven en 10-13-21
De: Ken Sande
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The Divider
- Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
- De: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
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The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.
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An expertly guided tour through history.
- De Cocoabelle en 09-24-22
De: Peter Baker, y otros
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- Aneil and Karen Mishra
- 09-04-23
Compelling from Beginning to End
Not only is this a terrific biography of Reagan in the context of his foreign policy, a great history of the his presidency and its influence on ending the Cold War, but also a great assessment of the bipartisan consensus in Congress that Regan was able to forge on how to deal with our allies and enemies. It is this last aspect that demonstrates convincingly how much a future President will need to accomplish to achieve a similar agreement on what is important for our country, both internationally and domestically. Sadly, the last several Presidents, current one, and likely next one have failed utterly in this regard.
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- KP
- 05-21-23
Excellent
A comprehensive and sweeping account of President Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy, including its triumphs and failures.
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- Smalls
- 01-13-23
An excellent book
This book is well worth the listen. The focus is on President Reagan's foreign policy and his determination to use his presidency to bring down the Soviet Union. It is extremely well done with a blend of behind the scenes anecdotes and valuable recounting of public events.
There are some diversions such as Latin America policy, the Middle East, Asia and, of course, Iran Contra. But the author, like President Reagan, keeps the spotlight on the Soviet Union.
It's a different view of the prevailing opinion in the 1980s and later of Reagan as a war monger. According to this recounting, Reagan had an overall strategy of pressuring the Soviet Union through an arms build-up combined with talks to reduce nuclear weapons. Reagan also made it a priority to gain the release of religious prisoners in the Soviet Union.
An added bonus is Reagan's interesting and often humorous interactions with Margaret Thatcher,
I give this book my highest recommendation.
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- wbiro
- 06-06-23
Good History and Partial Truth
I say "partial" in a general sense, since any one point of view, if subjective (like history), will only offer partial truths at best. This book is a good defence of Reagan, with some criticisms thrown in so it isn't a whitewash.
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- PTA
- 06-21-23
Compelling story
This was a very easy to listen to and interesting book. It was long, but I enjoyed it very much. It took place during an earlier time in my life, and I remembered lots of events, but the way it’s told the details were very interesting and told me a lot about President Reagan, that I did not know. I left feeling this was an exceptional man who I underestimated at the time.
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- Charles
- 07-11-23
The excitement of a novel
The author apologizes for writing this book as a real time history. He does not follow the tradition of pursuing individual topics. This type of history will help the reader avoid dementia. Novels are better for challenging your brain than traditional history books. He shows the advantage of foreign countries, knowing that a president most likely has eight years.
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- Anthony
- 01-29-23
Modern History Review
This book was a fine review of modern history and a most memorable time. People forget the negative mood of the country after the ineffective and four Jimmy Carter.
Reagan revived the country’s spirit. He clung to his principles and accomplished much at home and internationally.
We can give him much credit for the end of the Cold War.
We can hope and pray for more leaders who can inspire us like Ronald Reagan.
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- SouthDenverDave
- 06-18-23
Outstanding
Pro’s: superb narration, flawless delivery by the speaker. The book gives a good view of both sides of President Reagan’s legacy. He names the names and gives the players reputations and viewpoints on each topic. In my opinion Ronald Reagan was the most consequential president during and after the Cold War. We live in peace and prosperity today because of his efforts.
Con’s: I wanted more. It is such an interesting subject more depth could easily be achieved.
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- Damon
- 06-20-23
A story of freedom
Will Inboden has produced a remarkable story of the trajectory of freedom — and its setbacks — in this review of President Reagan coinciding with the 40th anniversary of his Westminster address calling for a global infrastructure to support democracy around the world.
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- Hans
- 01-17-23
Perfect Title. Reagan was our last Peacemaker
Read this book to understand what a great leader can accomplish and also how today’s world problems are not dissimilar to yesterday’s
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