George Schultz recounts his years working for the Reagan administration, including foreign policy and the power struggle between the State Department and the National Security Council, in this candid reflection on his years as Secretary of State. Turmoil and Triumph isn’t just a memoir—though it is that, too—it’s a thrilling retrospective on the eight tumultuous years that Schultz worked as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Under Schultz’s strong leadership, America braved a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, increasingly damaging waves of terrorism abroad, scandals such as the Iran-Contra crisis, and eventually the end of the decades-long Cold War. With the strong convictions and startling candor for which Schultz is known, this personal account takes readers into the heart of the Reagan administration, revealing the behind-the-scenes talks and churning tensions that informed a transitional decade that many Americans now look back on as one of the country’s most exalted.

The turmoils of life try to derail Ana as she moves to a new state and away from her sister who is disabled. She is followed in prayer to a new job in the operating room at the local hospital. She is accompanied by her Newfoundland dog Sophie. Due to construction issues, she encounters delays in starting her new job at the surgery center. She rents an old farmhouse where she and Sophie can live. Gwen and Hunter are the owners of the old farm which they inherited from their grandparents. Hunter is a bit self-absorbed with a heavy, bitter heart from previous losses. He is turned around from the moment he meets Ana. Gwen, Hunter's sister, owns a coffee shop and she and Ana become fast friends. Ana is invited to a bible study and is introduced to a new church. Circumstances lead Ana to taking over a bible study group for high school girls. Ana helps twins, Leslie and Lisa, begin a new life when they come to her for help. The relationship is not easy due to dangerous obstacles. The power of prayer shows them a clear direction where triumph will be achieved.

Drawing on his consulting experience with leading companies, Mitchell Marks offers specific advice to help corporations recover from the negative human consequences of transitions, and to use those transitions as opportunities to build new and better organizations.

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The United States and the Soviet Union missed numerous diplomatic opportunities to resolve differences and control the arms race because neither state trusted the other, according to Deborah Welch Larson. In Anatomy of Mistrust, she shows that the goals of Soviet and U.S. leaders were frequently complementary, and an agreement should have been attainable. Lost opportunities contributed to bankruptcy for the Soviet Union, serious damage to the economy of the United States, decreased public support for internationalist policies, and a proliferation of nuclear weapons. Synthesizing different understandings of trust and mistrust from the theoretical traditions of economics, psychology, and game theory, Larson analyzes five cases that might have been turning points in U.S.-Soviet relations: the two-year period following Stalin's death in 1953; Khrushchev's peace offensive from the launching of Sputnik until the U-2 incident; the Kennedy administration; the Nixon-Brezhnev detente; and the Gorbachev period. Larson concludes that leaders in the United States often refused to accept Soviet offers to negotiate because they feared a trap. Mutual trust is necessary, she concludes, although it may not be sufficient, for states to cooperate in managing their security.

Kaufman also details the impact of the cold war on U.S.-Arab relations. In his view, Washington's abiding concern with communist expansion after 1945 pervaded and perverted the U.S. approach to the Arab Middle East. Combined with the rise of Arab nationalism, Kaufman argues, the hardening of the cold war led to an American myopia regarding the Middle East that a more regional perspective might have avoided.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake" comes another major work of history, an original portrait of Ronald Reagan, the most puzzling president of the last half of the 20th century.