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...releasing a documented history of these communication last June, the Administration dried the juice out of Landau's best tidbit. Indeed, the the Administration has not been very cooperative. It is not Landau's fault that the careful research in his best chapter has become largely superfluous. Nor is he to blame for Kissingers refusal to grant him an interview Kissingers official bashfulness, however does put a heavy strain on the book. The effects are most severe in the biographical segment...
Since he could not interview Kissinger, Landau was forced to rely on those who had. The biographical portion of the first chapter is clearly indebted to such unacknowledged sources as Joseph Kraft who said very similar things in the January 1971 issue of Harper's Although Landau does not include Kraft in his bibliography and gives the syndicated columnist only two secondary footnotes on one he sets up a Kraft quote as a straw many the Harpers article like Landau's book, stressed the significance of Fritz Kraemer, an Army acquaintance and William Yandell Elliott, a Harvard professor in Kissinger...
Despite such debts, Landau has done a great deal of research and interviewed dozens of people to present the most 6. tended view of Kissinger in print. The story of the 1967 peace feelers is now public knowledge but Landau supplements it with accounts from the French Faison and National Liberation Front officials. By quoting frequently from Kissinger's not-for-attribution press briefings, he supplies an exclusive look at the policy maker in action. Landau also examined Kissinger's position papers, his books and articles, and the recollections of his friends and colleagues. Landan writes that Kissinger wanted President...
UNFORTUNATELY, LANDAU has the habit of slapping down slick generalizations. Such flaws pock the early chapters which are the most overwritten and least organized part of the book Glancing over two hundred years of American history and indulging rhetoric reminiscent of Nixon, Landau maintains that Kissingers is one of the most attractive voices ever to bold forth in Washington." Shifting to sociology he flatly and wrongly states that America does not look at all like Weimar. In a statement so oversimplified that it is blatantly false, he writes that Kissinger sees Nguven Van Thieu as a convenient ally not because...
...other times, Landau contradicts his own insights Forgetting his description of Kissinger's revulsion of ideology," and "deep horror of in ternal upheavals writes one hundred pages later that the cause of the Vietnamese liberation movement national unification--is one which Kissinger reared in the European tradition of nationalism, can only have accepted as legitimate." (Curiously enough, this statement is contradicted by still another specious assertion, which states that Kissinger favors a divided Germans because Germans had historically been a land and a nation divided," and because the native of Furth remembered "the horror that Bismarck's artificial creation...