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The Prince |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Paul Gottfried |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,591 Words, 16,739 Characters |
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KISSINGER
A Biography
Walter Isaacson
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992
891 pp., $30.00
Walter Isaacson's biography of Henry Kissinger is notable for several reasons: its gargantuan size (almost nine hundred pages of text); the fact that the author has researched and written so much about a former but still living secretary of state; and the care that is given to its subject's intellectual and social development.
It is indeed remarkable that Isaacson found time to complete such an undertaking. Still in his late thirties, he has worked as an assistant managing editor of Time magazine and written, in collaboration with Evan Thomas, a voluminous study of the thought and activities of six Brahmin career diplomats of the forties and fifties, including Dean Acheson and George Kenn...
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... of its substance to Metternich even in its Kissingerian form, actually grew out of the disillusioned Wilsonianism of the thirties and forties. Its architects were Kennan, William Bullitt, and the German refugee Hans Morgenthau. Less clear is what, if anything, it owes to the great Austrian statesman Count Metternich, who had been an idealistic internationalist even as a counterrevolutionary.
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