Recommendations from our site
“Kissinger was an academic before he was a diplomat and negotiator. He brought with him the knowledge and baggage of a historian. He was fascinated by the Congress of Vienna and clearly saw himself as a modern-day Talleyrand or Metternich, the French and Austrian representatives at the Congress.” Read more...
Jonathan Powell, Diplomats & Former Diplomat
“Whatever view one takes of Kissinger’s conduct of American foreign policy under Presidents Nixon and Ford, this book is a masterpiece. It confirms Kissinger’s standing as an intellectual and historian of exceptional quality.” Read more...
Michael Palliser, Diplomats & Former Diplomat
“The importance of Kissinger’s book is that it is fundamentally about power. It’s amazing how seldom people – newspapers, blogs, speeches – talk about power, but power is the raw thing at the heart of every political unit. Kissinger is a great figure of 20th-century diplomacy and therefore it is about his experience; you’re looking at diplomacy through the eyes of a great exponent of the diplomatic art.” Read more...
Jeremy Greenstock, Diplomats & Former Diplomat
