Kissinger : the idealist, Volume I, 1923-1968
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Kissinger : the idealist, Volume I, 1923-1968
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The work Kissinger : the idealist, Volume I, 1923-1968 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Kissinger : the idealist, Volume I, 1923-1968
- Title remainder
- the idealist
- Title number
- Volume I
- Title part
- 1923-1968
- Statement of responsibility
- Niall Ferguson
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Diplomatic relations
- trueHistorians -- United States -- Biography
- trueImmigrants
- trueJewish men
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
- Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
- trueNegotiation
- truePoliticians -- United States -- Biography
- Statesmen
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Foreign relations
- trueUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974
- trueUnited States -- History -- 20th century
- trueNational security advisors -- Biography
- 1969-1974
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism
- No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super K"--The "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama--he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. The first half of Kissinger's life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon's national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. This is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how "Dr. Strangelove" ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world--Adapted from book jacket
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 973.924/092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E840.8.K58
- LC item number
- F44 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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