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"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!"" Elegant and dramatic, Tear Down This Wall is the definitive account of one of the most memorable speeches in recent history and a reminder of the power of a president's words to change the world."

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&ldquo;Fast-moving and splendidly written. . . a remarkable re-creation of the last days of the Soviet empire, with East Germany as the culmination of the Marxist dialectic, and the wall the perfect symbol for that strange alternate universe.&rdquo; <p>&#8211;John R. Coyne, Jr. , Washington Times

Romesh Ratnesar has told the story with narrative verve, brilliant political and personal insight, and a combination of concision and pithiness worthy of the Great Communicator himself. --Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment: Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

Romesh Ratnesar has told the story with narrative verve, brilliant political and personal insight, and a combination of concision and pithiness worthy of the Great Communicator himself. <p><p>--Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment: Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation

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Romesh Ratnesar is Deputy Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He has written dozens of cover stories on topics that include the war in Iraq, global terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. He has won numerous journalism prizes. He has a B.A. and an M.A. from Stanford University.

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