When the World Seemed New, Jeffrey A. Engel
When the World Seemed New, Jeffrey A. Engel
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When the World Seemed New
George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

Author: Jeffrey A. Engel

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 20 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2017

Synopsis

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 page-turning history, behind closed doors from the Oval Office to the Kremlin, George H. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. Distrusted by such key allies as Margaret Thatcher and dismissed as too cautious by the press, Bush had the experience and the wisdom to use personal, one-on-one diplomacy with world leaders. Bush knew when it was essential to rally a coalition to push Iraq out of Kuwait. He managed to help unify Germany while strengthening NATO.

Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and interviews with all of the principals, When the World Seemed New is a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of a president with his hand on the tiller, guiding the nation through a pivotal time and setting the stage for the twenty-first century.

About Jeffrey A. Engel

Jeffrey A. Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Educated at Cornell, Oxford, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale University. He has authored or edited ten books on American foreign policy, including The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 and The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President. Born above the Mason-Dixon line, he now lives and teaches in Dallas, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

Excellent and fascinating history of George HW Bush’s foreign policy during his term as president. I was a kid during this time period and though I thought I knew the history pretty well, there was so much I had no idea about - especially the 1991 coup attempt on Gorbachev. This is the story of Tiana......more

Goodreads review by Chris

If you're looking for a riveting read of how President George HW Bush handled the end of the Cold War and the implosion of the Soviet Union, stop what you're doing and pick up this book. Mr. Engel has written a fantastic book on how Bush approached an unprecedented event in world history: the end of......more

Goodreads review by Julian

A rich and engaging account of the end of the Cold War and the leadership of H. W. to see it to its peaceful conclusion. Mr. Engel did his research and gave us a wonderful step-by-step account of Bush Sr handling of the international crisis that popped up during his solo term as president. I think i......more

Goodreads review by Michael

It took a long time to read this book, in part because the contrast between George H. W. Bush and the current President is so painful. "When the World Seemed New" is superb. It not only covers the many diplomatic crises that unfolded between 1989 and 1991, but it also looks at the intellectual baggag......more

Goodreads review by Bill

Drawing heavily on declassified documents from the George Bush Presidential Library and the National Security Archives, Jeffrey. A. Engel, (founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University) does a masterful job of chronicling the end of the Cold War between M......more

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