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Nixon and Kissinger is a gripping portrait of two complex men who despised each other but needed each other – and shaped the course of world history at the same time.
Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified documents and tapes, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger’s tumultuous personal relationship, their collaboration and rivalry, and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for foreign policy achievements.
He also brilliantly analyses their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad – including the nightmare of Vietnam, the brilliant opening to China, détente with the Soviet Union, the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of Allende in Chile, and growing tensions between India and Pakistan – while recognising how both men were continually plotting to distract the American public’s attention from the growing scandal of Watergate.
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