Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy - Hardcover

Schulzinger, Robert D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231069529 ISBN 13: 9780231069526

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Dissects Kissinger's complex, often controversial political career, examining the triumphs and blunders of his "shuttle diplomacy," the negotiations to normalize relations with China, and other foreign policy decisions

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From Library Journal

More than ten years out of office, the career of Henry "Super K" Kissinger continues to intrigue. Most libraries will own his memoirs, White House Years ( LJ 12/1/79) and Years of Upheaval ( LJ 6/1/82), and should offer at least a sampling of analyses ranging from Bernard and Marvin Kalb's complimentary Kissinger ( LJ 8/74) to Seymour Hersh's critical The Price of Power ( LJ 8/83). In this newest critique of Kissinger's overall record, Schulzinger (history, Univ. of Colorado) benefits from the perspective of time and newly available papers of Kissinger and Presidents Ford and Nixon and has crafted a balanced, well- documented, and highly readable analysis, covering Kissinger's towering ego and grand failures as well as his noted brilliance and stunning foreign policy successes. A similar, but more detailed, treatment than Seymon Brown's The Crisis of Power ( LJ 12/1/79), this is recommended for most libraries.
- James R. Kuhlman, Univ. of Georgia Lib., Athens
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

As both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Kissinger played a vital role in ending U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, the commencement of detente with the Soviet Union, the opening of relations with China and in bringing the U.S. into the Middle East arena as a major player. In an important, well-balanced analysis, based in part on newly declassified data, Schulzinger tracks Kissinger's career. Although Kissinger's accomplishments are given full due, Schulzinger, history professor at the University of Colorado, emphasizes the gap between promise and fulfillment, showing, for instance, that Kissinger "oversold" detente with the Soviet Union. He also explores Kissinger's "indifference to legal requirements" in his role in the secret bombing of Cambodia and the 1970 invasion of that country, the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, and the 1970-1973 efforts to destabilize the Allende government in Chile. Photos.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0231069529
• ISBN 13: 9780231069526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291