Diplomacy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinz Alfred Kissinger
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Political history
- Time of Work: The sixteenth through twentieth centuries
- Setting: Europe, the United States, and abroad
- Principal Characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu, Prince Klemens von Metternich, Prince Otto von Bismarck
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, World War II, Vietnam War, Presidents, Diplomacy or diplomats, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Locales: Europe, United States
Running in excess of nine hundred pages, Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy exemplifies a Teutonic tendency to provide extensive, sometimes ponderous, background material as the setting for the jewels that are a treatise’s essence. On the one hand, Diplomacy is a speculative book that looks toward the twenty-first century with an eye toward assessing the international stature of the United States in the new world order that Kissinger identifies lucidly in his first and final chapters, each of which is a model of close reasoning and penetrating, usually brilliant, analysis. On...
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