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Simon & Schuster, June 2010
Trade Paperback, 480 pages
ISBN-10: 1439195226
ISBN-13: 9781439195222
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Chapter 1
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By any measure, 1973 should have been Henry Kissinger’s year of triumph. But major events—defeat in Vietnam, Watergate, war in the Middle East, the Arab oil embargo—shattered whatever peace and calm America had attained in the early part of the decade. Rather than progressing on all fronts, as he had expected, Kissinger had to confront some of the most critical policy challenges of his career, including the blowup in the Middle East, détente with Russia, and the opening of the door to China.
Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year is the gripping history of one of America’s most enigmatic and influential foreign policy advisers during a pivotal year in the country’s postwar history.
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Chapter 1“A riveting story about one of the country’s most powerful secretaries of state”
-- Jonathan Karl, The Wall Street Journal
"[Sir Alistair] tells the story racily and well"
-- The Economist
"The book bustles with Kissinger’s peripatetic diplomacy and management of a series of crises."
-- Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
"Horne grippingly recounts those tense days of international negotiation, all the more dramatic due to the psychological withdrawal of the president. The dynamic between Nixon and Kissinger, so different in personality and background, propels the narrative. The author writes perceptively of the strange bond between the two men"
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Alistair Horne, wanting to write about Kissinger, but faced with a personal archive weighing 33 tons, has decided to concentrate on a single year, 1973. The result is an excellent and absorbing book in which he has marshaled a wonderful array of material, including verbatim accounts of seemingly every meeting, conversation and telephone call."
-- Kit McMahon, The Spectator
"Esteemed historian Horne, who had access to Kissinger's papers, astutely zeroes in on 1973, 'the crucial year.'"
-- Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NNMC Journal, October 13, 2011
...Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) and Horne is required if you wish to delve deeper into this conflict. Alistair Horne served in the Middle East Theater in World War II; he had a career as journalist before devoting his life to ...
New York Post, June 10, 2009
...HENRY Kissinger plunged into a 'deep gloom' over the Lewis 'Scooter' Libby scandal because it reminded him of 'a miniature of Watergate,' a new book reveals. In 'Kissinger 1973, the Crucial Year ...
