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Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist
by Niall Ferguson
Volume one of the authorized biography: refugee, soldier, Harvard, the path to power. Revisionist and exhaustive.
Read it if…
you want the young Kissinger in depth.
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Skip it if…
you want the Nixon years; wait for volume two.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ideas shape statesmen.
- Read the early years.
- Judge on evidence.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the war and Harvard.
Our verdict
Kissinger, volume one.
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