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1 online resource (xxii, 554 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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Introduction : a prize-winning performance? -- The aspiring statesman -- Kissinger, Nixon, and the challenges of '69 -- Bombs and back channels -- Progress and promise -- Negotiating in the shadow of war -- Crises and opportunities -- Breakthroughs -- The first test : Triangulation diplomacy and the Indo-Pakistani war -- "The week that changed the world" -- High stakes : triangulation, Moscow, and Vietnam -- Exiting Vietnam -- Highs and lows -- Secretary of State -- Unilateral advantage : the October war and shuttle diplomacy -- Nixon's farewell : Watergate, Kissinger and foreign policy -- Renewal? Ford, Vladivostok, and Kissinger -- Not our loss : exit from Vietnam -- The worst hour : Angola and East Timor -- "Worse than in the days of McCarthy" : Kissinger and the marathon of 1976 -- The chairman 'on trial' -- Conclusion : the flawed architect |
| Summary |
Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated detente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombingof Cambodia and policies leading to the overthrow of Chile's President Salvador Allende. Which is more accurate, the picture of Kissinger the skilled diplomat or Kissinger the war criminal?In The Flawed Architect, the first major reassessment of Kissinger in over a decade, historian Jussi Hanhimaki paints |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 534-539) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023
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Kissinger, Henry, 1923- fast |
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Kissinger, Henry, 1923- nli |
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
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Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
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Cabinet officers
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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Statesmen
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Buitenlandse politiek.
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140102
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140471
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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collective biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004008371 |
| ISBN |
9780195346749 |
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0195346742 |
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0199849994 |
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9780199849994 |
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1280843810 |
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9781280843815 |
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0195184319 |
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9780195184310 |
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9786610843817 |
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6610843813 |
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0195172213 |
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9780195172218 |
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9780199924042 |
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019992404X |
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