A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century Audiobook (Free)

Even while historians credit ­Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cool Battle, they have failed to recognize the depth or need for the relationship that developed between your two leaders.

Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor shifts that. In this exciting reserve, he reveals one bond-which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president-that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century: Soviet communism.

Reagan and John Paul II almost didn’t get the chance to forge this relationship: just six weeks apart in the springtime of 1981, they took bullets from would-be assassins. But their strikingly very similar near-death experiences brought them close together-to Moscow’s dismay.

A Pope and a Leader is the item of years of study. Based on Kengor’s tireless archival digging and his unique usage of Reagan insiders, this publication reveals captivating new information on a romantic relationship that changed background.