
Kissinger
1923-1968: The Idealist
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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Niall Ferguson
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Kissinger: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson, read by Roy McMillan.
No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the 'indispensable man' whose advice has been sought by every president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, Kissinger has also attracted immense hostility from critics who have cast him as an amoral Machiavellian - the ultimate cold-blooded 'realist'.
In this remarkable new book, the first of two volumes, Niall Ferguson has created an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger's world and a paradigm-shifting reappraisal of the man. Only through knowledge of Kissinger's early life (as a Jew in Hitler's Germany, a poor immigrant in New York, a GI at the Battle of the Bulge, an interrogator of Nazis and a student of history at Harvard) can we understand his debt to the philosophy of idealism. And only by tracing his rise, fall and revival as an adviser to Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller and, finally, Richard Nixon can we appreciate the magnitude of his contribution to the theory of diplomacy, grand strategy and nuclear deterrence.
Drawing not only on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than 100 archives around the world, this biography is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. Like his classic two-volume history The House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era.
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This does not happen in this outstanding work by Niall Ferguson. The author successfully tries to be a fly in the wall, observing and telling what happened throughout these first 45 years of Kissinger's life. All this by a remarkable research from unclassified documents to personal correspondence of Kissinger and other statesmen.
The cherry on the cake is the narration, with Roy McMillan superbly impersonating the voices of Kissinger and others.
Thorough and objective biography
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Tradeoff between peace and conflict. Never obvious to layman
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Magnificent
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Es la mejor biografía de los dilemas políticos y diplomáticos desde la segunda guerra hasta 1968.
Hsbra que esperar el segundo volumen que se encuentra en proceso de escritura.
Este libro es una delicia.
Una biografía intelectual excepcional
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very well researched
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Excellent narrative & narrator
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Kissinger
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