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EBOOK Flawed Architect:Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199924042
EAN: 62F16228EB
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Stron: 576
Data wydania: 2004
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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 detente 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 crises of the        period--the Indo-Pakistani War, the Yom Kippur War, the Angolan civil war--all set        against the backdrop of Watergate. Along the way, Hanhimaki sheds light on        Kissinger's personal flaws--he was obsessed with secrecy and bureaucratic infighting        in an administration that self-destructed in its abuse of power--as well as his        great strengths as a diplomat. We see Kissinger negotiating, threatening and joking        with virtually all of the key foreign leaders of the 1970s, from Mao to Brezhnev and        Anwar Sadat to Golda Meir.This well researched account brings to life the complex        nature of American foreign policymaking during the Kissinger years. It will be the        standard work on Kissinger for years to come.

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