LEADER 03780cam a2200421 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20220824131816.0 007 ta 008 031210s2004 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2003069368 020 0679463232 (acidfree paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |bEnglish 041 eng 043 n-us---e-ur---e-sz--- 050 00 E183.8.S65 |bM3724 2004 082 00 327.73047 |222 100 1 Matlock, Jack F., |d1929- 245 10 Reagan and Gorbachev : |bhow the Cold War ended / |cJack F. Matlock, Jr. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bRandom House, |cc2004. 300 xv, 363 p. : |bill. ; |c25 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-353) and index. 520 In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. As Reagan’s principal adviser on Soviet and European affairs, and later as the U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R., Matlock lived history: he was the point person for Reagan’s evolving policy of conciliation toward the Soviet Union. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and archival sources both here and abroad, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, led by two men of surpassing vision. Matlock details how, from the start of his term, Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.—U.S.S.R. relations, while rebuilding America’s military and fighting will in order to confront the Soviet Union while providing bargaining chips. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a potential partner in the enterprise of peace. At first the two leaders sparred, agreeing on little. Gradually a form of trust emerged, with Gorbachev taking politically risky steps that bore long-term benefits, like the agreement to abolish intermediate-range nuclear missiles and the agreement to abolish intermediate-range nuclear missiles and the U.S.S.R.’s significant unilateral troop reductions in 1988. Through his recollections and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock describes Reagan’s and Gorbachev’s initial views of each other. We learn how the two prepared for their meetings; we discover that Reagan occasionally wrote to Gorbachev in his own hand, both to personalize the correspondence and to prevent nit-picking by hard-liners in his administration. We also see how the two men were pushed closer together by the unlikeliest characters (Senator Ted Kennedy and François Mitterrand among them) and by the two leaders’ remarkable foreign ministers, George Shultz and Eduard Shevardnadze. The end of the Cold War is a key event in modern history, one that demanded bold individuals and decisive action. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past. 580 Donation of Anatole Shub 600 10 Reagan, Ronald, |d1911-2004 600 10 Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, |d1931- 650 0 Summit meetings |zSwitzerland |zGeneva. 650 0 Summit meetings |zIceland |zReykjavík. 651 0 United States |xForeign relations |zSoviet Union. 651 0 Soviet Union |xForeign relations |zUnited States. 651 0 United States |xForeign relations |y1981-1989. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6327_730470000000000_MAT |70 |8GEN |9160682OSA |bOSA |d2022-08-23 |eShub |o327.73047 MAT |r2022-08-23 |w2022-08-23 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 KXMd44o7 992 01 327_730470000000000_MAT |bWXS_SWZVSZZZZZZZZZZ_DP6 966 |cIn the Research Room