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"Endlessly fascinating...A brilliant and disturbing study of power." -- The New York Times"Confirms Kissinger's place as one of the great international players, and takes him down a peg as well....Kissinger will rave about the parts he likes and rage about the rest....This makes for compulsive reading." -- Peter Jennings, ABC News"Wonderful, entertaining, definitive biography." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review"Meticulously researched, intelligent and fair...a book full of insights." -- The Washington Post"A solidly researched, richly textured, and extremely readable account of a man in dramatic times who seemed bigger than life." -- The Boston Sunday Globe
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Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, this first-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, one that takes this century's most colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe-trotting business consultant.
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Produktinformation
Taschenbuch: 896 Seiten
Verlag: Simon & Schuster; Auflage: Reissue (27. September 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 9780743286978
ISBN-13: 978-0743286978
ASIN: 0743286979
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
15,6 x 4,1 x 23,5 cm
Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung:
3.6 von 5 Sternen
3 Kundenrezensionen
Amazon Bestseller-Rang:
Nr. 132.247 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
Vielleicht liegt es an den Übersetzer, aber ich finde es etwas zäh. Sehr konzentriertes Lesen ist notwendig im Gegensatz zu seinem Werk über Steven Jobs.Ich lese zur Zeit Einstein nebenbei im Original und finde es trotz AE leichter zu lesen.Fazit: Buch wahrscheinlich i.O., Übersetzung eher misslungen, hier wurde eine bessere Übersetzung vielleicht dem Werke gut tun.
Die Biographie von Walter Isaacson über Henry A. Kissinger - ehemals Aussenminister und nationaler Sicherheitsberater in der Zeit von Nixon und Ford - hat unter der Sekundärliteratur zu Kissinger immer noch eine Sonderstellung. Auch wenn sie 1992 verfasst wurde und somit nur die ersten beiden Memoiren des berühmten Diplomaten deutscher Herkunft thematisiert, so ist die Analyse zur Persönlichkeit Kissinger und dem Bezug zur Macht oder US-Aussenpolitik zeitlos. Die 1999 erschienen Memoiren "Jahre der Erneuerung" von Kissinger geben zwar bezüglich Chile (1973, Allende), Naher Osten und Vietnampolitik der USA etwas andere Schwerpunkte her - doch die unmittelbar nach den 70er Jahren erschienen ersten Memoiren sind dermassen tiefgründig analysiert worden von Isaacson, dass die immer noch hinzukommenden Publikationen Kissingers nicht markant vom evozierten Bild in der Biographie abweichen. Erst nach dem Ableben des Diplomaten und dem Zugang zu mehr Archiven wäre es möglich, dass Isaacson revidiert werden müsste - doch bis dahin geht es noch eine geraume Zeit.
Der Autor geht viel zu positiv mit einem der grössten Kriegsverbrecher der Menschheit um, einer der so viel Toten auf dem Gewissen hat wie nur wenige.
The author makes clear at the outset the difficulties faced by a biographer of such a polarising character. This biography is comprehensive, balanced and decidedly readable.Kissinger's staggering intellect and powerful charm/ability to manipulate - (take your pick) - are made very clear. His great triumphs - especially the Middle East - and dire misjudgments - especially Vietnam - are laid out objectively, with the author's opinions clearly separated from the facts.Equally clear are Kissinger's character flaws - ego, volcanic temper and obsession with grabbing both turf and credit.My only complaint is that the narrative is much less interesting when the author gets into the micro-detail of how x was excluded from a flight on a plane, y was given a less prestigious hotel room location and z was kept out of the loop on a certain topic etc. That Kissinger was just as keen to use his manipulative abilities to advance his personal turf wars as to serve (in his own opinion) the credibility (a word which crops up frequently in the book) of the USA is spelt out clearly. The minutiae of how he did this slows down the narrative.
I didn't enjoy this book as much as others written by Walter isaacson. I don't think there was anything wrong with the research or the writing. I did gain a stronger understanding of history and also great insights into the mind of Henry Kissinger. The problem may be that continuous analysis of Henry Kissinger's character flaws grew tiresome in such a long book. My next book choice will be something more uplifting.
Having read several books by Walter Isaacson, I find him to be a good writer. Being an admirer of Kissinger and having a love of history, I expected this to be a perfect book for me. After reading about a fourth of it, I find that it is certainly well-researched but also a slow and difficult read. It is not a book one would read for pleasure but more for the serious history or biography buff.
Walter Isaacson is a master biographer. None of his books ever disappoint. Mr Kissinger on the other hand is a very polarizing character, and part of your enjoyment of the book may depend on your thoughts on him, Nixon and the cold war. I must say though, that my opinion of Kissinger changed drastically over the course of the book, which I think is a testament to this exceptionally well written biography.
Walter Isaacson, who has written esteemed biographies of Benjamin Franklin, The Wise Men, and Einstein, tackles the complex character of Henry Kissinger, academic, diplomat, and consultant. Kissinger is a difficult character to pin down, as Isaacson notes. He was devious, self-promoting, self-deprecating, intelligent, ambitious, and successful. The author interviewed over 150 people--including Kissinger himself--to gather information for this lengthy volume (767 pages of text).At the outset, Isaacson says (page 9): "Three decades after he left office, Henry Kissinger continues to exert a fascinating hold on the public imagination as well as intellectual sway over the nation's foreign policy conversation." He was a well-known apostle of "Realpolitik," emphasizing doing what had to be done to advance the national interest, balancing power with power, concerned more with accomplishing things than getting caught up in ideology and morality. Again, a realist as opposed to an idealist. And this is the tension that is described throughout the course of this powerful volume (page 15): ". . .Kissinger had an instinctive feel. . .for power and for creating a new global balance that could help America cope with its withdrawal syndrome after Vietnam. But it was not matched by a similar feel for the strength to be derived from the openness of America's democratic system or for the moral values that are the true source of its global influence."The book begins with a brief early biography of Kissinger, including the misery he experienced after the Nazis came to power and the departure of his immediate family from Germany when they came to understand how inhospitable that country was becoming for Jews. The book also notes that many of his relatives died during World War II, part of the Holocaust. There follows the tale of his adolescence, his military service, his graduate study, and his promising academic career.But the major portion of this book focuses on his role as National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State under Richard Nixon's presidency and Secretary of State under Gerald Ford. There is a relatively brief discussion in several chapters of his life after Nixon-Ford, as consultant, commentator, intellectual-without-portfolio.After having worked with Nelson Rockefeller as an advisor, it is somewhat surprising that he ended up serving one of Rocky's antagonists, Richard Nixon. The book traces the odd relationship between Nixon and Kissinger. Sometimes hard-edged and combative, sometimes oddly supportive of one another. The secretive Nixon and Kissinger as lone cowboy accomplished a great deal in foreign policy; however, their penchant for secrecy also created problems of its own. Kissinger could be viewed is devious (for telling different people things in such a way as for each to think that Kissinger was on his/her side), but he also earned the trust of many leaders as he invented "shuttle diplomacy." Leaders might become exasperated with his style and his deviousness, but he was effective in a number of key instances. Examples worth exploring and reflecting upon in the book include the negotiations with North Vietnam to extricate the United States from a quagmire of its own making; the effort to end the Yom Kippur War in a manner that would stabilize the Middle East; the opening to China; détente with the Soviet Union.This is a biography that is worth investing time and energy into. It portrays Kissinger, warts and all, in a manner that illuminates this complicated individual. On some pages, one will think of railing against him; on other pages, one may well feel admiration for his strengths and accomplishments.
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