Isaacson, Walter

Kissinger : a biography / Walter Isaacson - New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks , 2005, c1992. - 893 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-840) and index.

By the time Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. "Kissinger" explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including U.S. presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this century's most colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globetrotting business consultant.

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Kissinger, Henry A. (, 1923-)


Statesman----United States----Biography
Historians----United States -- Biography

E840.8.K58 / I78 1992

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