{"id":1403,"date":"2013-05-20T21:40:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:20:54","slug":"the-rebellion-of-ronald-reagan-a-history-of-the-end-of-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan &#8211; A History of the End of the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by James Mann, 2010, Penguin Books<\/p>\n<p>This book was very disappointing, primarily because it was so repetitious.\u00c2\u00a0 There were over sixty pages devoted to objections by various individuals to Reagan&#8217;s Berlin Wall speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the objections were repeated numerous times in the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Our book club selected the book for the month of May, but many participants said they didn&#8217;t bother to finish the book.<\/p>\n<p>I was further disappointed when I read the acknowledgements at the end of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The author interviewed numerous individuals who were involved in the events depicted in the book.\u00c2\u00a0 He also spent a number of months in Berlin studying.\u00c2\u00a0 The disappointment is that he brought so little from those interviews and studies to the book.<\/p>\n<p>Did I say that there was a lot of repetition?\u00c2\u00a0 In case you missed that part, I have to mention that the author repeated a lot of information, much of it over and over and over again.\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"wp_editimgbtn\" title=\"2.0 Stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2.0 Stars\" width=\"64\" height=\"12\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James Mann, 2010, Penguin Books This book was very disappointing, primarily because it was so repetitious.\u00c2\u00a0 There were over sixty pages devoted to objections by various individuals to Reagan&#8217;s Berlin Wall speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the objections were repeated numerous <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1403\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}