Kissinger

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As his parents finished packing the few personal belongines they were permitted to take out of Germany,the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene.He was a bookish and reflective child,with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted.“I'll be back someday.”he saide to the cutoms inspector who was surveying the boses.Years later,he would recall how the offciual looded at him“with the disdain of ages”and said nothing.
Henry Kissinger was right:he did come bacd to his Bavarian birthplace,first as a soldier with the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps,them as a ren owned scholar of international relations,and eventually as the dominant relations,and eventually as the dominant statesman of his era.
Bya the time he was made secretary of stalte in 1973,he had become,according to the Gallup Poll,the most admired person in America.In addition.as the conducted foreign ploicy with the air of a guest of honor at a coktail party,hte became one of the most unlidly celebrites ever to capture the world's imagination.Yet Kissinger was reviled by large segments of the Americal public,ranging from ilberal intellectuals to conservative activists,who in varying ways considerec him a Strangeloveam power manipulator dangerously devoid of moral principles.
Kissinger's power-oriented approach to global politics resulted in a messy conclusion to the Vietnam War that included the secret bombing and invasion of Cambodia and the Christmas bombing of Hanoi.Yet he was also able to design a triangular balance based on detente America's influence in the world.He had an instinctive feel for power,but it was not matched by a feel for the openness of America's democratic system or for the moral values that are a basic source of its world influence.
This book,the first full biography of Kissinger,explores the relationship between his complex personality-brilliant,conspiratorial,furtive,prone to power struggles,charming yet at times deceitfrl-and the foreign policy he pursued.It drawns on extensive interviesw with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources,including Richard Nixon,Gerald Ford,H.R.Haldeman,former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu,Russian diplomats,cabinet colleagues,disillusionded aides,childhood friends,and business clients.In addition,it makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers,personal letters,recorded telephone conversation,his desk diaries and those of various officials,menos of classified meetings,and transcripts of FBI wiretaps.
The result is an intimeate narrative,filled with surprising revelations,that takes this century's most colorful staesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Naxi Germany,throuth his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon,to his twilight years as a globe-trotting business consulatnt.

作者简介：
WALTER ISAACSON,an Assistant Managine Editor of Time magazine,is the coauthor,with Evan Thomas,of The Wise Men:Six Friends and the World They Made.A native of New Orleans,he is a graduate of Harvard and of Pembroke College,Oxford,He lives in Bronxville,Ney York,with his wife and daughter.

Introduction
1 FURTH
2 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
3 THE ARMY
4 HARVARD
5 NEW YORK
6 HARVA
7 THE FRINGES OF POWER
8 THE CO-CONSPIRATORS
9 WELCOME TO VIETNAM
10 KISSINGER'S EMPIRE
11 THE WIRETAPS
12 ON EXIT
13 THE INVASION OF CAMBODLA
14 TWO WEEKS IN SEPTEMBER
15 SALT
16 CHINA
17 CELEBRITY
18 WINTER OF THE LONG KNIVES
19 THE TRIANGLE
20 PEACE AT HAND
21 THE CHRISTMAS BOMBING
22 SECRETARY OF STATE
23 THE YOM KIPPUR WAR
24 THE SHUTTLE
25 THE PRESS
26 TRANSITIONS
27 THE DEATH OF DETENTE
28 THE MAGIC IS GONE
29 MORALITY IN FOREIGN POLICY
30 AFRICA
31 EXIT
32 CITIZEN KISSINGER
33 KISSINGER ASSOCIATES
34 LEGACY
Acknowledgments
Nots
Bibliography
Index