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Ratnesar, Romesh.
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Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory.
Reagan, Ronald -- Political and social views.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Germany -- Berlin.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Cold War.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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Tear down this wall ...
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Tear down this wall : a city, a president, and the speech that ended the Cold War / Romesh Ratnesar.
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Ratnesar, Romesh.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Subjects
Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory.
Reagan, Ronald -- Political and social views.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Germany -- Berlin.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Cold War.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9781416556909
1416556907
Description:
229 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Contents:
Better than a war -- The last best hope -- Ash heap of history -- Fireside talks -- The dinner party -- "A missed opportunity" -- The wall must go -- The sign of the cross -- Mikhail and Ron -- "That magic line" -- Appendix: Remarks on East-West relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin.
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Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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Hawaii State Library
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973.92709 Ra
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