Greg Grandin

Kissinger's Shadow (eBook, ePUB)

The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance

In his fascinating new book Kissinger's Shadow, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary America-its never-ending wars abroad and political polarization at home-we have to understand Henry Kissinger.

Examining Kissinger's own writings, as well as a wealth of newly declassified documents, Grandin reveals how Richard Nixon's top foreign policy advisor, even as he was presiding over defeat in Vietnam and a disastrous, secret, and illegal war in Cambodia, was helping to revive a militarized version of American exceptionalism centered on an imperial presidency. Believing that reality could be bent to his will, insisting that intuition is more important in determining policy than hard facts, and vowing that past mistakes should never hinder future bold action, Kissinger anticipated, even enabled, the ascendance of the neoconservative idealists who took America into crippling wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Going beyond accounts focusing either on Kissinger's crimes or accomplishments, Grandin offers a compelling new interpretation of the diplomat's continuing influence on how the United States views its role in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781627794503
• Artikelnr.: 42552137

Autorenporträt

Greg Grandin is the author of The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Fordlandia, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His widely acclaimed books also include The Last Colonial Massacre, Kissinger's Shadow, and The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history. He is Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: On Not Seeing the Monster 1
Introduction:An Obituary Foretold 5
1. A Cosmic Beat 17
2. Ends and Means 36
3. Kissinger Smiled 53
4. Nixon Style 78
5.Anti-Kissinger 93
6. The Opposite of Unity 111
7. Secrecy and Spectacle 133
8. Inconceivable 156
9. Cause and Effect 173
10. Onward to the Gulf 187
11. Darkness into Light 203
Epilogue: Kissingerism without Kissinger 220
Notes 231
Acknowledgments 260
Index 263