Kissinger 1923-1968 The Idealist

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  • Paperback
  • 9780143109754
  • 27 september 2016
  • 986 pagina's
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Niall Ferguson

"Niall Campbell Ferguson (/ˈniːl/; born 18 April 1964) is a conservative British historian and political commentator. He was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and is a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Before Stanford, he was the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.

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From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers. Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as Super K -the indispensable man whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama-he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every telcon for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. The first half of Kissinger's life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon's national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge-as well as the liberation of a concentration camp-but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for limited nuclear war. Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger's rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by Rocky, Kissinger seemed stuck-until a trip to Vietnam changed everything. The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how Dr. Strangelove ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson's classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

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27 september 2016
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986
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Niall Ferguson
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141 mm
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57 mm
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217 mm
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53 mm
Verpakking lengte
215 mm
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    Wat ik vooral goed vind: toegankelijk, compleet.

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  • Gedegen relaas over een van een meest betekenisvol mens

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    • Spannend
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    Toon alleen de eerste 3 punten

    Het boek geeft niet alleen een diep inzicht in de bildung van Kissinger als mens, historicus en staatsman, maar ook een feitelijk beeld van de periode van de koude oorlog met alle complexiteit van die situatie.

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  • Deze mag je niet missen

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    • Goede kwaliteit
    • Voordelige koop
    • duurzaam

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    • prijzig

    Intrigerende man, verdient deze mooie biografie. Prachtig uitgegeven

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