Name: Kissinger: A Biography
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Author: Isaacson, Walter
ISBN: 9780743286978

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Isaacson

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

896

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.7x4.1 cm

Weight

1.09 kg.

ISBN

0743286979

ISBN13

9780743286978

Edition No.

Synopsis "Kissinger: A Biography "

The definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including US presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this grandly colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe-trotting business consultant.

Walter Isaacson

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Walter Isaacson teaches History at Tulane University. He has been the director of the Aspen Institute and CNN, as well as Time magazine.

He is the author of Einstein (Debate, 2014), Steve Jobs (Debate, 2011), The Innovators (Debate, 2014), Leonardo da Vinci (Debate, 2018), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986)

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