Table of Contents
Chronology xi
Introdoction xv
Part I Two Anti-Communists
1 Clandestine Visit 3
2 "It's Time to Stroke Ronnie" 8
3 Two Schools of Thought 16
4 Evil Empire 25
5 Nixon Detects Gorbachev's "Steel Fist" 34
6 Abolition 39
7 Conservative Uproar 47
8 The Conversation 52
9 Reversal of Roles 55
Part II Informal Adviser
1 A New Friend 63
2 Banned From the Land of the Fireblrd 68
3 War Scare 73
4 Improbable Emissary 82
5 Hunger For Religion 87
6 An Arrest and its Consequences 94
7 Keep Her Away 104
8 Carlucci's Notes 111
Part III Berlin
1 The Speech 117
2 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary 123
3 Day Visit of a Presidential Candidate 131
4 "He Blew it" 140
5 Anti-Soviet Jokes 144
6 The Orator and His Writers 150
7 One Night Free in West Berlin 156
8 Competing Drafts 163
9 Warsaw Pact 170
10 "I Think we'll Leave it in" 177
11 Rock Concert 182
12 Venetian Villa 192
13 Brandenburg Gate 197
14 Why Not "Mr. Honecker"? 209
15 On His Own 216
Part IV Summits
1 "Quit Pressing" 223
2 An Arms Deal and its Opponents 231
3 Shultz's Pitch 241
4 The Grand Tour Rejected 252
5 Of Dan Quayle and Errol Flynn 262
6 Gorbachev in Washington 269
7 Making A Treaty Look Easy 279
8 The Not-So-Evil Empire 291
9 Bush V. Reagan 307
10 The Wall Will Stand For "100 Years" 316
Epilogue 327
Conclusion 341
Acknowledgments 351
Notes 351
Index 381
