The Kissinger Transcripts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Burr
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1971-1977
- Setting: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Nixon, Mao Zedong, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Winston Lord, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Anatoly Dobrynin, Gerald R. Ford, Huang Zhen, Henry M. Jackson
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: 1970’s, Communism or communists, Vietnam War, China or Chinese people, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Diplomacy or diplomats, Geopolitics
- Locales: United States, Soviet Union, China
The Kissinger Transcripts owes its existence to the persistence of the researchers at the private National Security Archive who hunted down the once secret government documents recording Kissinger’s meetings behind closed doors with such top communist leaders as Mao Zedong and Leonid Brezhnev. William Burr, the book’s editor and a senior analyst with the archive, follows his nonprofit institution’s goal to provide public access to formerly secret material on U.S. foreign relations and military policy. Burr’s research skills, his devotion to the task, and a certain amount...
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