In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century by Caspar Weinberger with Gretchen Roberts Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895261669 Hardcover - (November, 2001) Reporting to General MacArthur in the middle of the night on nearby Japanese fleet movement... listening in stunned silence as President Nixon dismissed his entire Cabinet the day after his re-election victory... welcoming, along with President Reagan on the White House lawn, 52 brave Americans who had been held captive for a year and a half in Iran... Caspar Weinberger was privileged to have been on the front lines of history as it was being made through most of the twentieth century. It is from this perspective that he has written his memoirs, In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century. The book is chock full of Weinberger's personal reminiscences, and is filled with anecdotal material about his encounters with such history-makers as Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, General Colin Powell, General Douglas MacArthur, Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterand, Giovanni Spadolini, Nelson Rockefeller, Katherine Hepburn, and Tallulah Bankhead. Weinberger provides a window on the personalities and motivations of these individuals and their effects on history. The title In the Arena is taken from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt, a great hero of Weinberger's. The full passage, included in the book, expresses Roosevelt's-and Weinberger's-belief in the importance and satisfaction of actively striving for a worthy cause, rather than watching from the sidelines. Price: $24.95 - Click here to order: