Kissinger's Shadow : The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman (Paperback)

from Oberon

Kissinger's Shadow by Greg Grandin The book is a biography/indictment of Henry Kissinger. Despite being pretty left in my politics, this book came across as a bit too much of a screed for my taste. Henry Kissinger undoubtedly has a lot to answer for - whether it is his involvement in overthrowing...

from Oberon

Kissinger's Shadow by Greg Grandin The book is a biography/indictment of Henry Kissinger. Despite being pretty left in my politics, this book came across as a bit too much of a screed for my taste. Henry Kissinger undoubtedly has a lot to answer for - whether it is his involvement in overthrowing...

from mrmapcase

Garding provides a look at the reach of former Secretary of State Kissinger that sometime reaches in its conclusion. All of the details are significantly noted with abundant and rather long footnotes, but sometimes the sum of all the parts do not mesh up.

from 1Randal

I found the author's take on Kissinger to be overly harsh. From my other studies of Kissinger and Nixon, while I do not admire Kissinger, I do not believe he was as bad as the author made him out to be.

from abealy

How Henry Kissinger has avoided being put on trial for crimes against humanity is hard to comprehend. Responsible for the secret (unauthorized) carpet bombing of Laos and Cambodia, two neutral countries, during the late stages of the Vietnam war when such massive destruction had no possible effec...