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“Brigham makes a strong case that Kissinger’s war policy-making was ‘a total failure’….Making good use of new primary source material…he destroys Kissinger’s carefully and deceptively cultivated image as a foreign policy guru….[Reckless] should change the minds of those who have believed Kissinger’s deceptive, self-aggrandizing re-writing of Vietnam War history.”
— Vietnam Veterans of America Magazine
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“Brigham offers a persuasive argument…This all-but-total condemnation…confirms what many Kissinger skeptics have believed for decades and may change the minds of some who have believe him to be a foreign policy guru.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“One of the most compelling elements of the book is Brigham’s portrayal of Kissinger’s manipulation of an emotionally insecure Nixon. The president often responded by expressing doubts about Kissinger’s methods, but he did Kissinger’s bidding more often than not.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Narrator Jeff Bottoms sets the perfect tone for this indictment of the lead US negotiator…Bottoms sounds cool and analytical as he provides the knowing voice of hindsight.”
— AudioFile
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“A welcome, much-needed reexamination of the secret negotiations that led to America’s withdrawal from the Vietnam War. Using impressive new research, Robert K. Brigham skillfully analyzes the origins of the 1973 Paris Agreement and persuasively debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger as a diplomat of rare ability.”
— George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
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“Robert K. Brigham, drawing on many previously unpublished official transcripts and records, makes a scholarly and convincing case that Henry Kissinger’s policy making on Vietnam during the Nixon Administration was ‘reckless.’”
— Craig R. Whitney, Saigon correspondent and bureau chief of the New York Times, 1971-1973
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One of the most compelling elements of the book
is Brigham's portrayal of Kissinger's manipulation of an emotionally insecure
Nixon. The president often responded by expressing doubts about Kissinger's
methods, but he did Kissinger's bidding more often than not out of desperation
to win over the American electorate during the 1972 election cycle.
— Kirkus Reviews
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A welcome, much-needed reexamination of the
secret negotiations that led to America's withdrawal from the Vietnam War.
Using impressive new research, Robert K. Brigham skillfully analyzes the
origins of the 1973 Paris Agreement and persuasively debunks the myth of Henry
Kissinger as a diplomat of rare ability.
— George C. Herring, author of America's Longest War: The United States andVietnam, 1950-1975
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Brigham offers a persuasive argument that [Kissinger]
lied, misled, and deceptively outmaneuvered other policy makers in setting
Vietnam War policy from 1969 to 1975, with disastrous results.... This all-but-total condemnation...confirms what many Kissinger skeptics
have believed for decades and may change the minds of some who have believe him
to be a foreign policy guru.
— Publishers Weekly
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Vietnam-era scholars
and informed audiences fascinated by Kissinger will welcome the author's
insights.
— Library Journal
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Brigham makes a strong case that Kissinger's war policy-making was 'a total failure'....Making good use of new primary source material...he destroys Kissinger's carefully and deceptively cultivated image as a foreign policy guru....[Reckless] should change the minds of those who have believed Kissinger's deceptive, self-aggrandizing re-writing of Vietnam War history.
— Vietnam Veterans of America Magazine
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It's a clapback 15
years in the making, and offers insight into how Kissinger's machinations were
less brilliance than guesswork and ego, with disastrous results....[Reckless] squarely assigns the blame.
— Progressive Populist