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Nixon and Kissinger : partners in power / Robert Dallek.

Dallek, Robert. (Author).

Summary:

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and important leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into recently disclosed documents and tapes, historian Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship--their collaboration and rivalry--and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in foreign policy achievements. He also analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad, including the nightmare of Vietnam, the brilliant opening to China, détente with the Soviet Union, the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of Allende in Chile, and growing tensions between India and Pakistan, while recognizing how both men were continually plotting to distract the American public's attention away from the growing scandal of Watergate.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060722304
  • ISBN: 9780060722302
  • ISBN: 9780060722319
  • Physical Description: xii, 740 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Pub., [2007]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-700) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I: Brethren of a kind -- Nixon -- Kissinger -- 1968 -- II: The limits of power -- The Nixon-Kissinger White House -- Hope and illusion -- The politics of foreign policy -- Troubles galore -- Crisis managers -- Winter of discontent -- III: The best times -- The road to détente -- Détente in Asia: gains and losses -- The warriors as peacemakers -- Tainted victories -- IV: The worse of times -- New miseries -- In the shadow of Watergate -- The Nixon-Kissinger presidency -- The end of a presidency.
Subject:
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
Genre:
Biographies.

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