Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism

by George J. Mitchell

The former Senate Majority Leader focuses on the lives of Karl Marx, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mikhail Gorbachev to show why our democratic system has consistently succeeded in meeting the challenges of our times while the Communist system failed. Senator Mitchell illuminates broad themes by drawing parallels between events in America and those abroad - Hitler seized absolute power, for instance, just two days before FDR's inauguration. At the same time, he gives his narrative rare immediacy with anecdotes from a career that involved close cooperation with four presidents and face-to-face meetings with world leaders, including Gorbachev himself. Blending personal experience with global perspective, Not for America Alone offers provocative new insight into strengths that have not only sustained America in the past, but can also guide us into the future.

290 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1997

Reviews

[Dano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great review of world history. Well written and contextually relevant. Given it’s now 20 plus years old the ending chapters are dated. Good read nonetheless.