Years of Renewal (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Heinz Alfred Kissinger
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1969-1977
- Setting: The world
- Principal Characters: Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, Mao Zedong, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Anwar el-Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Politics, History
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Jews or Jewish life, Vietnam War, Politicians, Presidents, Diplomacy or diplomats, Geopolitics, Negotiation
- Locales: Earth
Henry Kissinger’s monumental Years of Renewal begins at one of the most dramatic points in American domestic history, when President Richard Nixon is forced to resign on August 9, 1974, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. With the exception of the brief first part, Kissinger’s book gives an extremely detailed account of his service to Nixon’s chosen successor, President Gerald Ford. Moving through the many foreign crises and challenges America had to face from 1974 to 1977, Kissinger offers a fascinating insider’s account on how Ford, he, and their team sought to...
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