Kissinger
1923-1968: the idealist
- ISBN: 9780713998702
- Editorial: Allen Lane Publishers
- Fecha de la edición: 2015
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 983
- Idiomas: Inglés
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Sí, por favor búsquenme este libroNo 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.
Book I. Heimat
Escape
Furth on the Hudson
An Unexpected Private
The Living and the Dead
In the Ruins of the Reich
Book II. The Idealist
Psychological Warfare
Doctor Kissinger
Strangelove?
Boswash
Book III. The Intellectual and the Policy Maker
Flexible Responses
Facts of Life
Crisis
Book IV. The Road to Vietnam
The Unquiet American
Dirt Against the Wind
Book V. The Anti-Bismarck
Waiting for Hanoi
1968
The Unlikely Combination
Epilogue: A Bildungsroman
