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Kissinger - 1923-1968: The Idealist (Paperback)
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Kissinger - 1923-1968: The Idealist (Paperback)
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'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The
New York Times 'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to
ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year
'This is a superb history of the modern world as well as a
biography of Kissinger ... a tour de force' William Shawcross, The
Times No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as
Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose
advice has been sought by every president from John F. Kennedy to
George W. Bush, Kissinger has also attracted immense hostility from
critics who have cast him as an amoral Machiavellian - the ultimate
cold-blooded "realist". In this remarkable new book, the first of
two volumes, Niall Ferguson has created an extraordinary panorama
of Kissinger's world, and a paradigm-shifting reappraisal of the
man. Only through knowledge of Kissinger's early life (as a Jew in
Hitler's Germany, a poor immigrant in New York, a GI at the Battle
of the Bulge, an interrogator of Nazis, and a student of history at
Harvard) can we understand his debt to the philosophy of idealism.
And only by tracing his rise, fall and revival as an adviser to
Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller and, finally, Richard Nixon can we
appreciate the magnitude of his contribution to the theory of
diplomacy, grand strategy and nuclear deterrence. Drawing not only
on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but also on documents
from more than a hundred archives around the world, this biography
is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. Like his classic two-volume
history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new
light on an entire era.
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