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Niall Ferguson KISSINGER 1923–1968: The Idealist Contents Preface INTRODUCTION BOOK I CHAPTER 1 Heimat CHAPTER 2 Escape CHAPTER 3 Fürth on the Hudson CHAPTER 4 An Unexpected Private CHAPTER 5 The Living and the Dead CHAPTER 6 In the Ruins of the Reich BOOK II CHAPTER 7 The Idealist CHAPTER 8 Psychological Warfare CHAPTER 9 Doctor Kissinger CHAPTER 10 Strangelove? CHAPTER 11 Boswash BOOK III CHAPTER 12 The Intellectual and the Policy Maker CHAPTER 13 Flexible Responses CHAPTER 14 Facts of Life CHAPTER 15 Crisis BOOK IV CHAPTER 16 The Road to Vietnam CHAPTER 17 The Unquiet American CHAPTER 18 Dirt Against the Wind BOOK V CHAPTER 19 The Anti-Bismarck CHAPTER 20 Waiting for Hanoi CHAPTER 21 1968 CHAPTER 22 The Unlikely Combination EPILOGUE: A Bildungsroman Illustrations Sources Notes Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Follow Penguin ABOUT THE AUTHOR Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and The Great Degeneration. His Kissinger, a feature- length film based on his interviews with Henry Kissinger, won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for best documentary. PENGUIN BOOKS KISSINGER ‘The finely nuanced portrait of Kissinger that emerges from this exhaustively detailed book is unlikely to be bettered. Yet it is more than just a biography; it is a compelling chronicle of the middle third of the twentieth century from the perspective of an extraordinary man’ Saul David, Evening Standard ‘Magnificent … If the second volume is as good as the first, Kissinger will be remembered as Ferguson’s masterpiece … With his usual meticulous research, Ferguson is master of all his work surveys. At least as important, he writes in an unobtrusive but compelling style that carries the reader along with unforced ease. Even on its own, the first volume of Ferguson’s life of Kissinger is a great work about a great man by – it has to be admitted – a great historian. It should be read, and enjoyed, by every serious student of the history of our times’ Sherard Cowper-Coles, Spectator ‘Brilliant … Ferguson shows that ideas – in particular the ideas of political actors with a keen sense of history and its lessons – can shape our times … Not every reader will share Ferguson’s view, but anyone interested in how we should all respond to a troubled world of uncertainty and conflict will benefit from immersing themselves in this thought-provoking and densely enjoyable biography’ Michael Gove, Mail on Sunday ‘Restores Kissinger’s complex humanity … As an intellectual biography, Ferguson’s book is a splendidly rich achievement: carefully researched, judiciously argued and elegantly written’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times ‘A formidably detailed, closely argued study of the making of one of the giants of twentieth-century foreign policy’ Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, Books of the Year ‘Niall Ferguson … has chosen to tackle this topic on the grandest possible scale … I acquired valuable knowledge, elegantly conveyed’ Paul Johnson, Standpoint Magazine ‘The book illustrates just what an extraordinary human being Kissinger is’ Robert Service, Daily Telegraph ‘The definitive biography … Ferguson offers a remarkably rich discussion of Kissinger’s strategic thought and of how it took shape over time … The book is well worth reading as a corrective to harsher historical judgments of Kissinger’ Wall Street Journal ‘If Kissinger’s official biographer cannot be accused of falling for his subject’s justifiably famed charm, he certainly gives the reader enough evidence to conclude that Henry Kissinger is one of the greatest Americans in the history of the Republic, someone who has been repulsively traduced over several decades and who deserved to have defense of this comprehensiveness published years ago … Niall Ferguson already has many important, scholarly and controversial books to his credit. But if the second volume of “Kissinger” is anywhere near as comprehensive, well written and riveting as the first, this will be his masterpiece’ Andrew Roberts, The New York Times ‘An engrossing intellectual history’ Simon Scott Plummer, The Tablet ‘When an accomplished historian writes about one of the world’s great diplomats, the results are sure to be a masterpiece – and that is exactly how to describe Niall Ferguson’s epic on Henry Kissinger’ James A. Baker, III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State ‘This is a terrific biography, and a must-read for understanding the evolution of one of the most important and compelling architects of American foreign policy of our age’ Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State and Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business ‘This is an extraordinary biography of the most significant scholar-statesman- strategist of our time, by one of our most accomplished historians. Not to be missed’ John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University ‘Ferguson’s biography will be a classic’ Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Former President of the World Bank, and U.S. Trade Representative ‘Fresh and imaginative, this carefully researched biography reads like a novel. Under Niall Ferguson’s skilled pen, Kissinger the public colossus becomes Henry the boy and man. A wonderful read’ Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and author of Is the American Century Over? IN MEMORIAM Gerald Harriss (1925–2014) Karl Leyser (1920–1992) Angus Macintyre (1935–1994)