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The flawed architect : Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy by Hanhimäki, Jussi M. is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated détente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man behind the secret bombing of Cambodia and policies leading to the overthrow of Chile's President Salvador Allende. Which is more accurate, the picture of Kissinger the skilled diplomat or Kissinger the war criminal? 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 fed by Christopher Hitchens over whether Kissinger is a war criminal. Hanhimaki guides the reader through White House power struggles and debates behind the Cambodia and Laos invasions, the search for a strategy in Vietnam, the breakthrough with China, and the unfolding of Soviet-American detente. Here, too, are many other international cris
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hanhimäki, Jussi M.
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780195172218
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14