Walter Isaacson's biography of Henry Kissinger — covering his life through the Nixon-Ford years, combining personal biography with the history of American foreign policy.
The standard one-volume biography of Kissinger: his refugee background (fled Nazi Germany at 15), Harvard years, his theory of international relations (balance of power, realpolitik), and his implementation of that theory as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Cambodia, Chile, Vietnam — the record assessed fairly but critically. Isaacson's characteristic combination of access journalism with structural analysis.
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