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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
Kudos to Isaacson for crafty such a long and detailed history on Kissinger while still keeping it enthralling. One thing to note is how Isaacson constantly excused Kissinger's deceptiveness and willingness to bend whichever way to please his boss as an immigrant's defense mechanism. This is an insult to the millions of immigrants out there who refuse to throw away their ethics and honors for a chance to climb the power ladder.
A fair and balanced biography of the controversial diplomat. Liberals despise him, think he's a war criminal. Conservatives think he's a Communist-appeasing sellout. I'm in the middle. I think he's a self-serving bureaucrat who went wherever the wind blew him. Sometimes that was to the left (bailing on South Vietnam, recognizing China). Sometimes it was to the right (bombing Cambodia, overthrowing Allende). I think he deserves a lot of the blame for stoking Nixon's crazy paranoia for witch hunts and wiretapping.
Make the Nixon administration seem like junior high school. Other than that I learned a lot of details I didn’t know.
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“It gave a taste of the intellectual arrogance for which he would become famous; at one point, for example, he declared, “Descartes’ cogito ergo sum was not really necessary.“
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