History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable
progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys,
random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's
incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic
history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we
can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can
begin to see the outline of today's Europe. The Ambassadors
includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western
side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the
post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in
his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected.
Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the
illuminating fragments it leaves behind.
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