A World Transformed - Hardcover

Bush, George; Scowcroft, Brent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679432485 ISBN 13: 9780679432487

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

In collaboration with his National Security Advisor, the former president offers a behind-the-scenes account of his tumultuous administration, chronicling such events as German reunification, Tiananmen Square, the Gulf War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. 100,000 first printing. First serial, Time.

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George Bush was President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He lives in Houston, Texas, and Kennebunkport, Maine. <br><br>Brent Scowcroft was National Security Advisor under Presidents Ford and Bush. He is president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international consulting firm, and president of the Forum for International Policy, a nonprofit foreign policy foundation, both based in Washington, D.C. He lives in Maryland.

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f the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those tumultuous years.<br><br>Here are behind-the-scenes accounts of critical meetings in the White House and of summit conferences in Europe and the United States, interspersed with excerpts from Mr. Bush's diary. We are given fresh and intriguing views of world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, and François Mitterrand--and witness the importance of personal relationships in diplomacy. There is the dramatic description of how President Bush put together the alliance against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. There are the intensive diplomatic exchanges with Beijing following the events of Tiananmen Square, and the intricate negotiations leading up to German reunificat

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679432485
• ISBN 13: 9780679432487
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 587
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Knopf; https://knopfdoubleday.com; ; 3 Queen Caroline Street Hammersmith; London; W6 9PE; Vereinigtes Königreich
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