Published: Simon & Schuster, 1992
Description:
893 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
“…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.…”
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Program air date: September 27, 1992.
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