The Divine Plan

There appears to be at least one very serious issue with this book: The omission of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher! Without her, I don't think President Reagan and Pope John Paul II would have been as successful in such a short time! Then, there was the last General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Rarely in history do great minds meet, but with Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Karol Józef Wojtyła (better known as Pope John Paul II), and Mikhail Gorbachev such a great moment happened!

Excerpt from the book of the months review by Intercollegiate Studies Institute:
"Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President ­Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins.
Few realized at the time how close both men came to dying.
Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that ­historians have failed to appreciate.
When John Paul II and Reagan met only a year later, they confided to each other a shared conviction: that God had spared their lives for a ­reason.
That reason? To defeat Communism.
In private, Reagan had a name for this: “The DP”—the Divine Plan. ...

And no leaders proved more important than the pope and the president."

The Divine Plan - ISI Books:

“John Paul II and Ronald Reagan both understood that they were preserved through this suffering for a high purpose. And I don’t think you’ll understand either one of them without understanding that"