Category: Reagan

• The “Greatest Generation” and its Legacy: A Perspective

  Just the other day, January 20, 2023, to be exact, I turned 75, i.e., the day that marked ¾ of a century of existence on Planet Earth. If you’ve done your math, you’ve figured out that I was born approximately four weeks into the new year of 1948, just 2 ½ years after the end…

  Labhrais O’Coileain

  January 24, 2023

  Baby Boomers, Bible, Christianity, Gen X, Gorbachev, Greatest Generation, history, Millennials, Reagan, Soviet Union, Terrorism, Uncategorized

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• Book Review: Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War, by Ken Adelman

  Ken Adelman’s masterpiece, running to a quite manageable 375 pages including notes and a bibliography, uses the October 1986 meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev as the springboard to prove his thesis that it was indeed the catalyst for…

  Labhrais O’Coileain

  November 11, 2022

  arms control, book review, Geopolitics, Germany, Gorbachev, Reagan, Reykjavik, Russia

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