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HENRY KISSINGER AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY HENRY KISSINGER AMERICAN CENTURY and the JEREMI SURI THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,Massachusetts Copyright©2007byJeremiSuri Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica FirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2009. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Suri,Jeremi. HenryKissingerandtheAmericancentury /JeremiSuri. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-674-02579-0(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-674-03252-1(pbk.) 1.Kissinger,Henry,1923—Politicalandsocialviews. 2.UnitedStates—Foreign relations—1969–1974. 3.UnitedStates—Foreignrelations—1974–1977. 4.ColdWar. 5.UnitedStates—Foreignrelations—Philosophy. 6.Statesmen—UnitedStates— Biography. I.Title. E840.8.K58S87 2007 327.730092—dc22 2007006648 Epigraph:HenryKissinger,WhiteHouseYears(Boston:Little,Brown,1979),54. ToAlison,Natalie,andZachary— theanchorsof myworld Contents ListofIllustrations viii Introduction:TheMakingoftheAmericanCentury 1 ONE DemocracyandItsDiscontents 16 TWO TransatlanticTies 52 THREE TheColdWarUniversity 92 FOUR AStrategyofLimits 138 FIVE AStatesman’sRevolution 197 SIX FromGermanytoJerusalem 249 Notes 277 Acknowledgments 345 Index 347 Illustrations Kissingeratworkintransit 3 KissingerandMaoZedong,November1973 6 KissingerandIsmailFahmy,August1975 9 CartoonaboutKissinger’s“shuttlediplomacy,”December1976 12 Kissinger’sparents,1930 21 TheNeuschulSynagogue,Fürth,Germany,circa1935 27 KissingerandHeinz(Menachem)Lion,Germany,1937 29 Kissingerandhisyoungerbrother,Walter,1930s 40 Nazirally,Munich,November1937 42 KissingerinU.S.Armyuniform,1945 60 AmericansoldiersenteringBensheim,Germany,March1945 75 KonradAdenauer,1957 82 Kissinger’sHarvardyearbookphoto,1950 104 WilliamElliott 111 Kissinger,1957 119 HarvardYard,circa1957 133 KissingeratHarvard,December1968 140 KissingerasNelsonRockefeller’saide 165 Illustrations ix KissingerandNelsonRockefeller 166 Studentdemonstration,1968 193 KissingerandRichardNixon,1973 203 Kissinger,Brezhnev,andNixon,May1972 225 KissingerandLeDucTho,November1972 229 AmericandeparturefromSaigon,April1975 231 KissingeronthecoverofTimemagazine,1April1974 233 KissingerandambassadorsfromtheOrganizationofAfricanUnity, August1974 237 KissingerandAugustoPinochet,1976 241 Kissinger,parents,andchildrenathisinductionassecretaryofstate, 22September1973 251 KissingerandGoldaMeir 259 KissingerandAnwarSadat 262 CartoonofKissingerandSadat,1975 266 KissingerandGeorgeW.Bush,November2002 273

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