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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
by Robert Dallek
from Harper Perennial

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• kissinger and nixon
  I like this book
  Anyway to show that Nixon was A GREAT PRESIDENT is in my opinion OK

• A great detailed study of foreign policy
  This book is a great history of the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy. However, even more than that, it also shows how our government makes (or fails to make) foreign policy. It shows the day to day infighting, trivialities, and ego-stroking involved at the highest levels of government. In particular, Dallek details how Nixon and Kissinger sought to wrest foreign policy control from the bureaucracy for themselves, essentially personalizing foreign policy. They also had a tendency to ignore experts and keep... more info

• An unsure Imperial President
  The relationship of these two incredibly insecure men is interesting to explore. Both were looking for constant reassurance from one another. Nixon seemed incredibly unsure of himself in Robert Dallek's book.
  Dallek explores other good biographies of Nixon and previously unreleased material to go in more depth.
  The problems faced by Nixon and Kissinger were varied, and handled with varied success. The failure in Vietnam sticks out like a sore thumb and is a major theme of the book. Smaller... more info

• Flawed heroes or war criminals?
  Robert Dallek, biographer of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, has now written an account of the Nixon presidency, but it is not as good as Seymour Hersh's magnificent The Price of Power.
  In July 1968 Nixon and Kissinger told President Thieu of South Vietnam to reject US calls to begin participating in peace talks. In doing so, they broke the US law against private citizens conducting diplomatic negotiations.
  Nixon campaigned on a platform of ending the war, yet sabotaged Johnson's final efforts to... more info

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