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The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy

Author: Jussi M Hanhimäki
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In the Flawed Architect, the first major reassessment of Kissinger in over a decade, historian Jussi Hanhimaki paints a subtle, carefully composed portrait of America's most famous and infamous statesman. Drawing on extensive research from newly declassified files, the author follows Kissinger from his beginnings in the Nixon administration up to the current controversy over whether Kissinger is a war criminal.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hanhimäki, Jussi M., 1965-
Flawed architect.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)607405041
Named Person: Henry Kissinger; Henry Kissinger
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jussi M Hanhimäki
ISBN: 0195172213 9780195172218
OCLC Number: 54966195
Description: xxii, 554 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 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.
Other Titles: Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy
Responsibility: Jussi Hanhimäki.
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Abstract:

"In the Flawed Architect, the first major reassessment of Kissinger in over a decade, historian Jussi Hanhimaki paints a subtle, carefully composed portrait of America's most famous and infamous statesman. Drawing on extensive research from newly declassified files, the author follows Kissinger from his beginnings in the Nixon administration up to the current controversy over whether Kissinger is a war criminal. Hanhimaki guides the reader through White House power struggles and debates behind the Cambodia and Laos invasions, the search for a strategy in Vietnam, the breakthrough with China, and the unfolding of Soviet-American detente. Here, too, are many other international crises of the period - the Indo-Pakistani War, the Yom Kippur War, the Angolan civil war - all set against the backdrop of Watergate.

Along the way, Hanhimaki sheds light on Kissinger's personal flaws - he was obsessed with secrecy and bureaucratic infighting in an administration that self-destructed in its abuse of power - as well as his great strengths as a diplomat. We see Kissinger negotiating, threatening and joking with virtually all of the key foreign leaders of the 1970s, from Mao to Brezhnev and Anwar Sadat to Golda Meir."--Jacket.

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