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Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War Audiobook

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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/194567 Title: Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War Author: Romesh Ratnesar Narrator: Wes Bleed Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs 20 mins Language: English Release date: 2009-11-05 Publisher: Oasis Audio Genres: Politics, Global Politics Publisher's Summary: On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon would become among the most famous in presidential history. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate,” Reagan said. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!” In this riveting and fast-paced audio book, Romesh Ratnesar provides an account of how Reagan arrived at his defining moment and what followed from it. The audio is based on interviews with numerous former Reagan administration officials and American and German eyewitnesses to the speech, as well as recently declassified State Departm