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ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Walter Isaacson, James Kelly...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Walter Isaacson, James Kelly...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Walter Isaacson, James Kelly...
...Isaacson's judgments are generally sound, but like other Nixon and Kissinger biographers he is driven to take sides between the two men. He compares Kissinger with Metternich and Nixon with the wily diplomat's slow-witted superior, Austrian Emperor Francis I, but it was Nixon who persuaded Kissinger to encourage West Germany's overtures to East Germany and who initiated the opening to China. Clearly the two men had similar conceptual strengths and personal weaknesses...
...Isaacson's book is brilliant journalism, but he doesn't make us see and feel the drama of events through Kissinger's eyes. Except for the occasional tantrum, Kissinger disappears behind Isaacson's analysis of controversial policy decisions. But this is now the definitive account of Kissinger and one of a handful of books that should be read by anyone concerned with the Nixon era and American foreign policy...