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“Kissinger is a triumph. Isaacon writes…with sympathy, verve, imagination, insight, and a keen eye. A stunning achievement.”
— Stephen E. Ambrose, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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“Confirms Kissinger’s place as one of the great
international players and takes him down a peg as well…Kissinger will rave
about the parts he likes and rage about the rest…This makes for compulsive
reading.”
— Peter Jennings
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“In its range and research, it is the book to
end all books on Mr. Kissinger. For his aficionados, it makes compulsive
reading; for students of his years of influence on United States foreign
policy, it is compulsory.”
— New York Times
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“Mr. Isaacson's work is a model of insight, delicacy, and fairness that moves at a lively pace through recent American history and re-creates, inconsiderable depth, the intellectuals and politicians who formed its foreign policy.”
— New Yorker
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“[A] wonderful, entertaining, definitive biography.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
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“Meticulously researched, intelligent, and fair…A
book full of insights.”
— Washington Post
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“A solidly researched, richly textured, and
extremely readable account of a man in dramatic times who seemed bigger than
life.”
— Boston Sunday Globe
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“The fullest account of Kissinger’s life and
career to date, other than for his memoirs…A spooky, engrossing portrait of the
only European-style realist ever to guide US foreign policy.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“As a commanding opus for the present, enlivened by snippets from hundreds of interviews, Isaacson raises a high bar for any historians who challenge him.”
— Booklist
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“Isaacson…has produced much more than another
unauthorized biography…While there are other excellent Kissinger biographies,
this work is the best to date on Henry K. Superstar.”
— Library Journal
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“A critical but resolutely objective and utterly
fascinating biography of the guileful, egocentric geopolitical scientist who
became America’s most celebrated secretary of state…An authoritative and
comprehensive account…An evenhanded, warts-and-all portrait of a
larger-than-life individual who has left his mark behind.”
— Kirkus Reviews