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4) The crises of power: an interpretation of United States foreign policy during the Kissinger Years
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Provides an assessment of Kissinger's performances in office during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
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Expanding on themes such as the cozy relationship of intellectuals to the state and American adventurism after World War II, Chomsky goes on to examine the way that U.S. policymakers set about the task of rewriting the horrible history of involvement in Indochina and turned their attention more squarely on the Middle East and Central America. Also assesses U.S. oil strategy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, issues an urgent call to stem the bloodshed...
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"In this reinterpretation of America's most disastrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes the state orthodoxies of the left and the right and puts the Vietnam War in its proper context - as part of the global conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cold War, he argues, was actually the third world war of the twentieth century, and the proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan were its major campaigns." "Lind offers...
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This volume analyzes Kissinger's personality and its influence on U.S. foreign policy. Harvey Starr reexamines biographical and psychological studies of Kissinger. He compares these with information in Kissinger's memoirs and clarifies Kissinger's relationship to Nixon, to the bureaucratic structure as well as his policies toward the Soviet Union. Dana Ward argues that contradictory tendencies in Kissinger coalesce into patterns of behavior typical...
15) Kissinger
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A penetrating investigation into Kissinger's complex character and rise to prominence in diplomatic circles. Bibliog.
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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. Hanhimaki guides the reader through...
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"A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, balance of power, and national interest. The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger that examines his unique role in government through his ideas. It analyzes the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and Chile by offering an understanding of his definition...
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