Years of renewal / Henry Kissinger.
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TextPublisher: [S.l.] : Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1999Description: 1151 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 075675383X (paperback); 9780756753832 (paperback)DDC classification: 973.9240 Online resources: Amazon.com Summary: The third & final volume of the memoirs of former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger. Begins with the resignation of Nixon -- including Kissinger's assessment of Nixon's tortured personality & the self-inflicted tragedy that ended his presidency & made Kissinger, for a time, the most powerful man in American government. Then takes the reader through the years of Ford's administration, in which Kissinger continued to play a decisive role. Details the agony of the final U.S. extrication from Vietnam & takes us inside the White House to show our leaders in a time of crisis. He recounts the many major decisions & crises that he had to deal with. He provides intimate & candid portraits of world leaders, from Mao Zedong to Leonid Brezhnev.
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The third & final volume of the memoirs of former Sec. of State Henry Kissinger. Begins with the resignation of Nixon -- including Kissinger's assessment of Nixon's tortured personality & the self-inflicted tragedy that ended his presidency & made Kissinger, for a time, the most powerful man in American government. Then takes the reader through the years of Ford's administration, in which Kissinger continued to play a decisive role. Details the agony of the final U.S. extrication from Vietnam & takes us inside the White House to show our leaders in a time of crisis. He recounts the many major decisions & crises that he had to deal with. He provides intimate & candid portraits of world leaders, from Mao Zedong to Leonid Brezhnev.

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