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Kissinger: A Biography
As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted. "I'll be back someday", he said to the customs inspector who was surveying the boxes. Years later, he would recall how the official looked at him "with the disdain of age" and said nothing. Henry Kissinger was right: he did come back to his Bavarian birthplace, first as a soldier with the U.S. Army counterintelligence corps, then as a renowned scholar of international relations, and eventually as the dominant statesman of his era. By the time he was made secretary of state in , he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America. In addition, as he conducted foreign policy with the air of a guest of honor at a cocktail party, he became one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists, who in varying ways considered him a Strangelovean
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KISSINGER A Biography. By Walter Isaacson. Illustrated. pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $
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WHATEVER else he is, Henry Kissinger is an "only in America" phenomenon. He is the embodiment of the American dream, the legendary immigrant who started with nothing and gained everything -- fame, honors, fortune.
Walter Isaacson's "Kissinger" is an page chronicle of how Henry Kissinger obtained all these glittering prizes. In its range and research, it is the book to end all books on Mr. Kissinger. For his aficionados, it makes compulsive reading; for students of his years of influence on United States foreign policy, it is compulsory. It takes Mr. Kissinger from birth to almost the present moment, often in minute detail. It is based on both documentary sources and interviews with just about everyone who ever worked with its subject. Mr. Kissinger himself, after some hesitation, gave Mr. Isaacson more than two dozen formal interviews as well as access to many public and private papers. Mr. Kissinger also asked family members, former aides, business associates and past Presidents -- including Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- to cooperate. But Mr. Isaacson, an assistant managing editor of Time magazine and the author, with Evan Thomas, of &q