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Years of renewal, Henry Kissinger

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Years of renewal

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Henry Kissinger

"Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist of this century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best-informed, and most articulate figures ever to occupy a position of power in Washington." "The third and final volume of his memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history. It is at once an historical document and a narrative of almost Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights, unusual (and often unsparing) candor, and a sweeping sense of history." "Above all, here are intimate, candid, and sharply intelligent portraits of world leaders, from Mao Zedong teasing Kissinger with a characteristic mixture of brutality and acerbic subtlety, to Leonid Brezhnev, confused, unwell, desperately trying to conceal the Soviet Union's growing difficulties with a facade of blustering bravado, as well as a galaxy of European, Middle Eastern, Asian, Latin American, and African leaders."--Jacket

A Ford, not a Lincoln -- The Nixon legacy. The man and the organization ; Controversy over détente ; Jackson, arms control, and Jewish emigration ; China and its leaders -- Ford at the helm. The new presidency ; Cyprus, a case study in ethnic conflict -- East-West relations. Ford inherits the debate over détente ; A visit with Brezhnev ; Vladivostok and the crisis in American-Soviet relations ; The intelligence investigations -- Breakthrough in the Middle East. Ford and Middle East diplomacy ; One shuttle too many ; Sinai II and the road to peace -- Collapse in Indochina, tragedy of the Kurds. Indochina tragedy-- the beginning of the end ; The collapse of Cambodia ; The end of Vietnam ; Anatomy of a crisis : the Mayaguez ; Tragedy of the Kurds -- The Atlantic relationship. The restoration of western unity ; The European security conference ; The energy crisis -- Latin America. Panama, Mexico, and the "New Dialogue" ; Brazil, Chile, and western hemisphere unity ; Cuban interlude -- Relations with the communist world. Civil war in Angola ; Last visit to Moscow ; Preserving the Sino-American relationship. -- Southern Africa. An African strategy ; First visit to Africa ; Toward majority rule in Southern Africa ; Breakthrough to majority rule -- End of the Ford presidency. Civil War in Lebanon and Middle East peace ; Reflections