BOOK: Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer

Doubleday, a Division of Random House | November 2002 | Peter Schweizer

[leprechaun9]

(From flap of book cover)

"Schweizer details Reagan's economic and political war against Moscow, a war that he personally mapped out and directed, ignoring the advice of many experts in his own administration.

Schweizer brings to light dozens of previously unknown facts about the Cold War, based on secret documents obtained from archives in Russia, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the United States.

Among his revelations are a North Korea and East German plot to assassinate Reagan in 1983; Reagan's secret funding of solidarity in Poland; and the behind the scenes support that the Soviets and East Germans provided for European and American peace movements, as well as their clandestine contacts with U.S. government officials.

Many of Schweizer's choicest revelations come from Reagan's KGB file, to which he has gained access."

[leprechaun9]

This is a very informative book and gives an insight into someone who was never nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but this book gives some information that supports those who ask why he never was!

[Always Right]

This is a very informative book and gives an insight into someone who was never nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but this book gives some information that supports those who ask why he never was!

The Nobel Prize is not worthy of Reagan. Reagan's prize was the Berlin wall coming down and the end of the Soviet Union. What a bunch of socialists peaceniks think is of little consequence.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

This book is awesome. I'm 3/4 through it and every page has a new detail I never heard of before. It should be required reading for every history student.

I'm sending a copy to my wife's niece who is a graduate student in history.

She (shudder) actually took a class in "Comparative Communism" and I sent her the Black Book of Communism with a short note explaining that the differences are nil and that all commie states put goverment as god and man subserviant to the state and free countries the man is above the state.

I don't think she got it though as now she is going to Brown.

[Thud]

I just finished it and had a great time. The book is fun, informative and the leftie press hates it. There is a lot of new, for me, information in there. Schweizer's Victory is a better book but this one on Reagan is a worthwhile companion to it.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I've got to check out that Victory book then because this is a great one.

It really shows how good a President can be when he has a vision and purpose for becoming President as opposed to having a vision of becoming President.

We might never see another President that fits the former description.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The author was on the KSFO (San Francisco) Morning Show today. He described how Jimmy Carter, Tip O'Neill, and Teddy Kennedy all asked the Soviet Foreign Minister for help in preventing Reagan's election. Supposedly, the whole story came to light after the fall of the evil empire when the Kremlim's papers became public documents. Funny how we never heard about this from the Lamestream media.