San Antonio College Library

Richard Nixon's accomplishments in foreign affairs - his China policy, detente with the USSR and the conclusion of the Vietnam War - have long been cited as an enduring legacy. A Tangled Web offers a critical reassessment of Nixon's foreign policy.

As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings 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 said to the customs inspector who was surveying the boxes. Years later, he would recall...

A penetrating investigation into Kissinger's complex character and rise to prominence in diplomatic circles. Bibliog.

An expose of Kissinger's secret negotiations to end the Vietnam War argues that the final agreement to end the war betrayed America's former South Vietnamese allies and left thousands of American soldiers dead in vain.

"What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century." "Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes...

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...

Clarifies the connection between Kissinger the scholar and Kissinger the statesman and elucidates his philosophy while assessing his major foreign-policy initiatives.