Kissinger a biography /
As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can c...
| Main Author: | Isaacson, Walter. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[1992]
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| Physical Description: |
893 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Table of contents Program air date: September 27, 1992. |
Table of Contents:
- Fürth: coming of age in Nazi Germany, 1923-1938
- Washington Heights: the Americanization of an aspiring account, 1938-1943
- The army: "Mr. Henry" comes marching home again, 1943-1947
- Harvard: the ambitious student, 1947-1955
- New York: in the service of the establishment, 1954-1957
- Harvard again: The professor, 1957-1968
- The fringes of power: Kennedy, Johnson, and Rockefeller, 1961-1968
- The co-conspirators: Kissinger and Nixon, 1968
- Welcome to Vietnam: secret options, secret bombings
- Kissinger's empire: the boss's power and how he operated
- The wiretaps: office bugs, dead keys, and other devices
- No exit: Vietnam swallows another administration
- The invasion of Cambodia: an expanded war, resignations, and rage
- Two weeks in September: an hour-by-hour look at the art of crisis juggling
- Salt: arms control in the back channel
- China: creating a triangle
- Celebrity: the secret life of the world's least likely sex symbol
- Winter of the long knives: after a mishandled war, Kissinger hits a low point
- The triangle: summit spring in Moscow and Beijing
- Peace at hand: the Paris talks produce an elusive accord
- The Christmas bombing: Hanoi is hit in order to convince Saigon to sign
- Secretary of State: a rise that was helped because everyone else was sinking
- The Yom Kipper war: a mideast initiation, a resupply dispute, and a nuclear alert
- The shuttle: step by step through Israel, Egypt, and Syria
- The press: how to be captivating on a background basis
- Transitions: the final days, and a new beginning
- The death of détente: an odd coalition takes a hard line
- The magic is gone: setbacks in the Sinai and Southeast Asia
- Morality in foreign policy: Kissinger's realpolitik and how it was challenged
- Africa: covert involvment followed by shuttle diplomacy
- Exit: not with a bang but a whimper
- Citizen Kissinger: the jet-set life of a minister without portfolio
- Kissinger associates: how the world's most famous consultant struck it rich
- Legacy: policy and personality.