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Pros
Walter isaacson is a master biographer. He uses an elegant style with the art of michelangelo to paint a beautiful description of dr. Isaacson’s massive 893-page book.
Biography shows attention evenly to kissenger the person and kissengers the politician. Shows what kissinger represents to diplomacy and kissinger's role in diplomacy. Well done and well researched.
Most important chapters of kissinger’s long life belong to his tenure in the nixon white house. The vietnamese are willing forgive you what has happened, but can you forgive yourself? It's interesting that everything (bad) i thought about kissinger, n... Read More
It feels like kissinger truly was the smartest person in the room. Kissinger's staggering intellect and powerful charm/ability to manipulate.
Cons
A real downer. This is a hatchet job overall. Isaacson is a brilliantwriter, but, to follow kissinger's life and character, hediscloses again and again his sickeningway of treating people.
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Quality
Even as a small child in the late 60s i became familiar with the names nixon watergate vietnam armstrong
In this biographical book isaacson combines his skills of being a good researcher and an excellent writer using an elegant styl... Read More
He is free to tell the bad with the good
The methodologies that he became so intellectually enamored with the westphalian postnapoleonic europe is a relic a fossil of the past
Packaging/appearance
In this regard nixon and kissinger were of the same mind
How many would need to die in a limited nuclear breach between india and pakistan before each sides general’s threw in the towel
Competitiveness
And fairminded and objective about the role of jews in the modern world
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Its not easy to judge ones actions when theyre dealing with a broad range of international issues
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I read isaacsons biography of steve jobs before this book
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Complicated figure in history that needs more than one first rate historian to develop an accurate profile
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Kissingers pessimism and belief in realpolitik prevented him from seeing that there was such a thing as the evil empire let alone imagine defeating it
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Sometimes gets repetitive and is a bit too long
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Walter isaacson succeeded to write down a book which deal with all above mentioned perfectly
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Too bad our present and past president dont pay attention to his analyses
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Again it was amazing that kissinger could even come up with such comments while being in the middle of worldshaking events
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