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REVEALED FROM SECRET DOCUMENTS: How Ronald Reagan moved to bring down the Soviet Union from his first days in office -- and free the world from the threat of nuclear holocaust
Reagan's Secret War
by Martin Anderson; Annelise Martin
Liberal mythmakers in Hollywood and Washington insist
that Ronald Reagan was an amiable dunce, put through paces
by shadowy subordinates for whom he served as a kind of
mouthpiece, as well as a trigger-happy cowboy who would
gladly have nuked Moscow without batting an eye.
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But top-secret, never-before-revealed documents paint
a starkly different picture: in fact, Reagan intended to
bring down the Soviet Union from his first days in office,
and carefully began laying plans to achieve that goal. At
the same time, he considered eliminating nuclear weapons
his paramount objective. Above all, it was Reagan himself –
not his subordinates -- who crafted the policies that
ultimately brought the Soviets to the nuclear-arms
negotiating table, and ended the scourge of Soviet
Communism once and for all. In Reagan's Secret War: The
Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World From Nuclear
Disaster, Martin and Annelise Anderson (bestselling authors
of Reagan, In His Own Hand) give you access to newly
declassified top-secret files that prove all that and more.
Until the Andersons arrived at the entrance of the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,
California, in 2004, the building's treasure trove of
millions of documents -- classified as secret or top secret
-- had been seen by only a few archivists. Many had never
been examined at all. Using his top-secret clearances,
Martin Anderson was able to access Ronald Reagan's most
privileged exchanges with his staff, as well as with some
of the most important world leaders of the 1980s. Anderson
also was able to examine the tactical record of how Reagan
fought to win the Cold War and control nuclear weapons.
Among the revealing and astonishing documents included
here are the minutes of Reagan-chaired National Security
Council meetings; the secret letters sent by Reagan to
world leaders; and the eyewitness notes from Reagan-
Gorbachev summits. The Andersons provided concise and
readable explanations of the circumstances of each
document, showing how Reagan single-handedly changed the
course of American foreign policy – and world history – for
all time. Often startling and revelatory, Reagan's Secret
War offers remarkable proof that Ronald Reagan was one of
the greatest Presidents in American history -- and a man to
whom the Free World will forever owe an immense debt of
gratitude.
Among the surprising revelations of Reagan's Secret War:
- The vow that Reagan made to himself in 1945 -- one of the
most grandiose promises of the twentieth century, and one
that he actually accomplished to a remarkable degree
- Reagan's deceptively simple plan to compel the Soviets to
agree to reductions in their nuclear arsenal
- How Reagan dealt with the possibility that if he moved
ahead with his plans, the Soviets might decide to strike
America first
- Soviet strategy at the 1986 Reykjavik summit: why they so
readily agreed to destroy 50 percent of their nuclear
missiles and take down all the missiles aimed at European
countries -- and yet refused to budge on their opposition
to the Strategic Defense Initiative
- The secret letters Reagan and Gorbachev exchanged that
paved the way for the end to the Cold War
- Reagan's incisive analysis of the internal dilemma
Mikhail Gorbachev faced as leader of the Soviet Union
- The potential Achilles' heel that Reagan perceived as an
inherent aspect of any effective defensive system
- Four key elements Reagan articulated of an effective
negotiation
- The intensity of Reagan's concern for human rights: why
it came as a surprise to many people, especially when he
spoke out so forcefully at the Berlin Wall
- How Reagan achieved the first genuine reduction in an
arms race that up to that point had seemed unstoppable
and inevitable
- Why Reagan was so confident that, underneath all his
bluster and bravado, Gorbachev would eventually see the
wisdom of SDI
- The spectacularly wrongheaded way the liberal mainstream
media of his time reported on Reagan's revolution in arms
control
- The three levels of Reagan's arms control policy -- and
how he made stunning advances in each during his years as
President
"Unprecedented access. . .[This book] may change forever
the image held by many." -- Former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger
"The authors have defied assumptions about what Reagan
thought and said and conducted painstaking research to get
at the truth of what he really planned and executed. All of
us who are grippe by the transcendent importance of the
nuclear threat will learn from, and be inspired by, this
account." -- Former Secretary of State George P. Schultz
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