出版社: Penguin Press
副标题: 1923-1968: The Idealist
出版年: 2015-9-29
页数: 1008
定价: USD 39.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781594206535
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers
No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for eviden...
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers
No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.
The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything.
The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.
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Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The Great Degeneration, Civilization, The Ascent of Money, and War of the World.
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1 有用 le frisson™ 2016-01-23 05:22:03
Awfully contrived...quite a bit of trivializing background information. Some propaganda material quietly slipped in.
0 有用 Donald 2016-01-17 22:20:40
最好先了解作者生平背景,读起来会有趣很多很多。
1 有用 clover 2016-04-17 12:17:14
讲了一个理想主义者如何蜕变为一个现实主义者。写作大量基于基辛格的学术著作分析,而不是一味地讲评书故事。
0 有用 GW_Parables 2015-12-04 21:33:23
never a dull moment with Dr. Henry..this book is a keeper
1 有用 munford 2017-08-07 03:14:00
传记写到这程度确实是真下了功夫。1000多页才写了基辛格的前半生。从德国的童年,流亡美国,二战美国大兵,到哈佛学者,政治幕僚。
1 有用 走走看看 2019-01-29 22:54:45
油管上看了一场本书作者Naill Ferguson 与Kissinger 同台的有关中国的辩论,于是从图书馆借了回来读。读了前十章弃读。本以为自己对外交、政治、历史感兴趣能坚持读完,读着读着发现有些枯燥。书中很多基于基辛格的书、文章分析他的外交思想的形成与转变,若不是对人物特别感兴趣很难读完,毕竟八百多页的大部头。
0 有用 apocalY*ptic13 2018-11-22 13:12:43
Very insightful contents yet too contrived and lost in details.
1 有用 munford 2017-08-07 03:14:00
传记写到这程度确实是真下了功夫。1000多页才写了基辛格的前半生。从德国的童年,流亡美国,二战美国大兵,到哈佛学者,政治幕僚。
1 有用 clover 2016-04-17 12:17:14
讲了一个理想主义者如何蜕变为一个现实主义者。写作大量基于基辛格的学术著作分析,而不是一味地讲评书故事。
1 有用 le frisson™ 2016-01-23 05:22:03
Awfully contrived...quite a bit of trivializing background information. Some propaganda material quietly slipped in.