Books, Arts & Manners: How the West Won

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State, by George Shultz (Scribner’s, 1,184 pp., $30)

At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War, by Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown, 498 pp., $24.95)