Kissinger, Henry YEARS OF RENEWAL. ISBN 13: 9780297818946

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The third & final volume of the memoirs of former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger. Begins with the resignation of Nixon -- including Kissinger's assessment of Nixon's tortured personality & the self-inflicted tragedy that ended his presidency & made Kissinger, for a time, the most powerful man in American government. Then takes the reader through the years of Ford's administration, in which Kissinger continued to play a decisive role. Details the agony of the final U.S. extrication from Vietnam & takes us inside the White House to show our leaders in a time of crisis. He recounts the many major decisions & crises that he had to deal with. He provides intimate & candid portraits of world leaders, from Mao Zedong to Leonid Brezhnev.

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There is an old joke that Henry Kissinger is so full of himself he once wrote a book called Famous People Who Have Met Me. That strong sense of self is on full display in this third volume of memoirs (the other two are White House Years and Years of Upheaval). Kissinger, a national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, is a foreign-policy maestro fond of describing the difficult subtleties of his job. He is also, at times, generous with his praise--especially with this whopper: "I am certain the time will come when it is recognized that the Cold War could not have been won had not Gerald Ford, at a tragic point of America's history, been there to keep us from losing it." Years of Renewal begins during Nixon's final days, and provides a few key insights into the man Kissinger calls "perhaps [the] most complex President of the twentieth century." One eye opener is the revelation that Nixon ordered the bombing of the Damascus airport in 1969 during a hijacking incident "to impress his pals." (It was called off the next morning.) The bulk of the book (and bulk is the right word--there are nearly 1,100 pages of text before the footnotes) focuses on Ford, who comes across as much more statesmanlike than the popular image of him as a bungling caretaker. The portraits of contemporary world leaders are also valuable. Kissinger combines detail and clarity to deliver an important chronicle of American diplomacy during the 1970s. --John Miller
About the Author:
Henry A. Kissinger was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a United States citizen in 1943. He served in the U.S. Army and eventually attended Harvard University, where he would later become a member of the faculty. Among the awards he has received are the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty. At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.

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  • PublisherWeidenfeld and Nicolson
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0297818945
  • ISBN 13 9780297818946
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages1151
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