num_pages: 896
description: By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including U.S. presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this grandly colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe-trotting business consultant.
language: English
title: Kissinger
titlecomplete: Kissinger
genres: Audiobook, Politics, Historical, Biography, American History, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Business, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 3917
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Simon & Schuster