Kissinger. Volume I 1923-1968: the idealist

Summary: A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.

Item details

ISBN: 1594206538
ISBN: 9781594206535
Physical Description: print
xix, 986 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2015.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [883]-945) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Introduction -- Book I -- Chapter 1 Heimat -- Chapter 2 Escape -- Chapter 3 Fürth on the Hudson -- Chapter 4 An Unexpected Private -- Chapter 5 The Living and the Dead -- Chapter 6 In the Ruins of the Reich -- Book II -- Chapter 7 The Idealist -- Chapter 8 Psychological Warfare -- Chapter 9 Doctor Kissinger -- Chapter 10 Strangelove? -- Chapter 11 Boswash -- Book III Chapter 12 The Intellectual and the Policy Maker -- Chapter 13 Flexible Responses -- Chapter 14 Facts of Life -- Chapter 15 Crisis -- Book IV -- Chapter 16 The Road to Vietnam -- Chapter 17 The Unquiet American -- Chapter 18 Dirt Against the Wind -- Book V -- Chapter 19 The Anti-Bismarck -- Chapter 20 Waiting for Hanoi -- Chapter 21 1968 -- Chapter 22 The Unlikely Combination -- Epilogue: A Bildungsroman -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index.