Turning Point
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF REAGAN, THATCHER, THE INVASION OF GRENADA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
How Reagan reignited the foreign policy principles that made America a ?shining city upon a hill.?
On October 25th,1983 President Ronald Reagan launched one of the most successful invasions in modern American history. In four days, Operation Urgent Fury successfully liberated the Island of Grenada from communist forces and reinstated the democratically elected government. It was the first major American operation since Vietnam and the first victorious major military operation since World War II. And this monumental task almost came at the cost of the most important Cold War alliance: that between President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The urgency of action meant that the Prime Minister and close American ally was left out of the loop, publicly embarrassing for her and straining their relationship.
TURNING POINT: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War reveals how America was able to invade a country, liberate it from a corrupt government that threatened stability in the Western hemisphere, and leave the potential for a prosperous future in the hands of its own people; it explores the greater picture of how Reagan avoided succumbing to interventionist nation-building and becoming an occupying force.
President Reagan's strategic success helped bring an end to the Cold War and is a much needed lesson for current American foreign policy.
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CRAIG SHIRLEY (ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA) is a presidential historian and Reagan biographer. All told, he has written eleven books including six on Ronald Reagan and the New York Times bestselling December, 1941. His wife Zorine also worked for Reagan and is now president of the Essex County Museum in Virginia. Together they enjoy sailing.
Shirley lives & works in the Richmond, Virginia metro area.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS to TURNING POINT: How Reagan Liberated Grenada and Won the Cold War by John Bachman
?Every president has to make sure that his secretary of state understands who is the president and who is the secretary of state?
?Dean Rusk
PART 1
THE SPREAD OF MARXISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
- Somoza's Assassintion and the Fall of Nicaragua
- Grenada's Bloodless Revolution
- Mexico's Tilt Towards Marxism
- A Warning From Congress
REAGAN'S ELECTION
- One Debate For All The Marbles
- Why Reagan Ran, Again
- The 1980 GOP Primary
- President Carter's Primary Challenges
- The Transition and the End of the Iran Hostage Crisis
- Carter And El Salvador
- The Inauguration
- Reagan's First Televised Press Conference
THE RESIGNATION OF AL HAIG
- ?The Meanest Son of Bitch?
- ?I'm In Control Here
- The Beginning of the End
- ?Remember, Everyone Stock Up on Vodka.?
- A ?Nightmare? Trip to Europe & the 1982 War in Lebanon
- China and Taiwan
- The Final Straw
SOVIET GERONTOCRACY
- The Ghosts of Stalin's Purge
- Redefining Detente
- Star Wars: The Strategic Defense Initiaitive
- Operation RYAN
- Soviet Response to The Strategic Defense Initiative
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007
- A Nuclear Scare
PART 2
GRENADA's DAYS OF TERROR
- Flashpoint: Grenada
- A Crisis Erupts - The Assassination Of Maurice Bishop
- Bernard Coard's Back Story
- The Cuban Connection
- Days Of ?Terror?
A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN AUGUSTA
- Oct. 22, 1983
- Contingency Plans
- Skeptics
THE MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING IN BEIRUT
- Oct 23rd, 1983
- Margaret Thatcher Warns Reagan not to invade
- Bud McFarlane
THE SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP
- 1967 Thatcher Tours the US, Reagan's California U.S. Itinerary
- The Falklands War Reagan Calls for Ceasefire but the Iron Lady will have none of it
- March 1983 The New Jewel Marxists started complaining about ?U.S. Aggression?
PART 3
D-DAY MINUS 1
- SEAL Team 6's First Mission Starts with Tragedy
- The 82nd Airborne gets ready for ?something?
- The Green Light
D-DAY
- Operation Urgent Fury
- The ?heavy? Fog of War
D DAY PLUS 1
A NATION WITH GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Flipping The Script
- Top Gun Recruiting
- Reagan's October 27th, 1983 Speech
THE APOLOGY & THE GOODBYE
- ?Don't Go Wobbly?
- Margaret Thatcher's Eulogy of Reagan
