On The Brink The Dramatic Behind-the-Scenses Saga of the Reagan Era and the Men and Women Who Won the Cold War

Inscribed on second blank page: May 30, 1996 To Chris DeMuth With best wishes to someone who will be "one of the men and women" of his generation. Jay Winik

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The book contradicts all the liberal claims about Ronald Reagan being an "amiable dunce" and other outright lies propounded by the Left. The President was completely aware of the political machinations going on around him, and yet was able to stay above the fray and let his select operatives fight it out with their American opponents to achieve victory.

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The thesis that President Ronald Reagan's administration, through its embrace of military confrontation and brinksmanship, hastened the breakup of the Soviet Union and decisively won the Cold War for the U.S. receives a fresh twist in Winik's intensely dramatic, personal narrative history. He credits four members of the Reagan team, all renegade Democrats, with translating the President's hard-line policy into effective diplomacy. The four are Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, arms control negotiator, supporter of Star Wars and of the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe; Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; human rights advocate Max Kampelman; and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with key participants, private papers, classified documents and memos of conversations, Winik, a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, also provides close-ups of Carter, Mondale, Kissinger, Caspar Weinberger, George Schultz, Paul Nitze and others.