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The speech that ended the Cold War
Mr. Gorbachev—! Well, you know the rest. As historians and artists around Los Angeles and the world reconstruct bits of the Berlin Wall, Time's Romesh Ratnesar commemorates and cobbles together the speech that is credited with bringing it down. At the very least, President Ronald Reagan's exhortation to the Soviet premier thawed some of the Cold War's ice floes. Ratnesar does Reagan one better in his book, "Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War."
Mr. Gorbachev—! Well, you know the rest. As historians and artists around Los Angeles and the world reconstruct bits of the Berlin Wall, Time's Romesh Ratnesar commemorates and cobbles together the speech that is credited with bringing it down. At the very least, President Ronald Reagan's exhortation to the Soviet premier thawed some of the Cold War's ice floes. Ratnesar does Reagan one better in his book, "Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War."
Guest:
Romesh Ratnesar, author of "Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War" (Simon & Schuster). His is deputy managing editor of Time magazine.