Oral History S.
3 total works
Leading figures comment on the Islamic revolution, the Star Wars initiative, the Achille Lauro hijacking, the rise of the Moral Majority, the bombing of Libya, the Reykjavik summit, and the Lebanon hostage situation. Includes a major section on the Iran-contra affair and significant material on U.S.-Soviet summits and the policies that hastened the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Having interviewed a large number of political insiders from the Nixon administration (and a selection of other involved political figures), the authors thematically arrange the reminiscences of figures such as John Dean, H.R. Haldeman, Daniel Ellsberg, and Robert Bork. The issues that not unexpecte
In revisiting John Kennedy's presidency, the authors incldue considerable material on the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin crisis, the beginnings of the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights movement.