![]() ![]() The result is a “wonderful book” in which “Engel does a terrific job recreating the tension and exhilaration” of the era, as James Goldgeier puts it. The reviewers here are unanimous in their praise for Engel’s research and writing. ![]() Scholars can forever debate the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War, yet one ought not lose sight of the fact that good and incredible things happened. “And they won’t have, as my children did, air raid drills in which they crawl under their desks and cover their heads in case of nuclear war.” “Tomorrow our children will go to school and study history and how plants grow,” President Bush said in his 1992 State of the Union address. In short, this book can make a lot of readers feel old. president, while there are undergraduates this semester who were born during the presidency of his son, George W. Bush, the main subject of Jeffrey Engel’s When the World Seemed New, became the longest-living U.S. More time has transpired between the fall of the Berlin Wall and today than the entire duration of that iconic Cold War barrier. Review by Timothy Sayle, University of TorontoĪuthor’s Response by Jeffrey A. Review by Sergey Radchenko, Cardiff University ![]() Review by James Goldgeier, American University Introduction by James Graham Wilson, U.S. ![]()
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