Victory

Name: Victory
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Peter Schweizer
ISBN: 9781455100682

Author: Peter Schweizer

Narrator: Ian Esmo

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction

Synopsis

This explosive book chronicles why and how Ronald Reagan helped to bring down the Soviet Union. Based on exclusive interviews with key participants, including Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and William Clark, Peter Schweizer provides the riveting details of how the Reagan inner circle undermined the Soviet economy and its dwindling resource base to subvert the Kremlin's hold on its global empire. Using secret diplomacy, the administration dramatically reduced Soviet income while simultaneously driving Moscow to expend an increasing amount of precious assets. There was also an American initiative to provide covert aid to indigenous forces in Poland and Afghanistan to roll back Soviet power. Schweizer's compelling argument for the Reagan administration's calculated strategy is impossible to ignore.

About Peter Schweizer

Success is the key word for American born author, Peter Franz Schweizer. He was born in 1964, and became an investigative journalist, novelist, author, and political consultant. Peter received his M.Phil.from Oxford University, and his B.A. from George Washington University.

Schweizer's accomplishments are many. He is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, and senior-editor-at-large of Breitbart News, a staple in the right wing realm. He began his Conservative roots in high school and continued from there. He is also a partner in a speech writing company in Washington, DC called Oval Office Writers who write speeches for various executives and politicians.

Peter has written several books that have been translated into many languages. They have also been on the New York Times snd Washington Post bestseller lists. Some of his more successful efforts include: Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich; Extortion; Throw Them All Out; Reagan's War; The Bushes:Portrait of a Dynasty; Architects of Ruin; Victory; Do As I Say (Not As I Do); and Makers and Takers.

Schweizer lives in Florida with Rhonda, his wife, and children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christian on May 04, 2019

My Facebook Friend Peter Schweizer has written an excellent book which gives the full truth about Ronald Reagan’s lasting and meaningful contributions to the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. Peter gives facts and perspectives routinely ignored by the leftists in academia and the so-......more

Goodreads review by Wilson on January 16, 2018

More than ever I thought it quite appropriate to relate to history on dealing with aggressor nations and I saw a good number of historical parallels to now: presidential critics refusing to give any credit to any of the President's policies, those who wish to compromise with hostile nations after ye......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 04, 2020

Its strange to think that I used some stuff from here in the past to back up a theory of spam industrial espionage. Having now read it from cover to cover (as opposed to citing the references without proper due diligence, mea culpa) I wouldn't recommend this to anyone other than as an example of how......more

Goodreads review by Christian on May 04, 2019

Goodreads review by Rhuff on June 27, 2020

Entertaining read, but -the "fall of the USSR" was more complex than Schweizer's neo-con thesis allows. No doubt the actions presented here did play their part. But sabotage and covert warfare were endemic in Soviet-Western relations from 1917, alternating with periods of detente. To grant Schweizer......more