Dallek, Robert:Nixon and Kissinger; Partners in Power
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New York: Scribner, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 640 pages. Glossary of Names. Illustrations. Footnotes. Timeline. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. … Mehr…
New York: Scribner, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 640 pages. Glossary of Names. Illustrations. Footnotes. Timeline. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Front DJ flap price clipped. Ink notation inside front free end paper. George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He had previously been a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. During his career in public service, he was known simply as George Bush, but after his son George W. Bush became the 43rd president in 2001, he was referred to as "George H. W. Bush" or "Bush 41". This collection of letters, diary entries, and memos provide insights into Bush's service during World War II, the oil business, his two terms in Congress, his ambassadorship to the United Nations, his service in China, his tenure with the C. I. A., and the vice presidency, the presidency, and the post-presidency. Derived from a Kirkus review: The former president presents his autobiography in the form of annotated letters, journal entries, a few speeches, and assorted documents. Like many collections of letters. Bush emerges as a decent, thoughtful man-a man who unashamedly espouses the values of hearth, home, and friendship, who was at all times exactly what he appeared to be, who loved his wife, loved his children, loved his country. The letters are chronological-beginning with a section called "Love and War," ending with "Looking Forward"-and chronicle in surprising detail Bush's life from his 1942 enlistment in the navy to the present. In the letters (and in his accompanying notes) are some fascinating comments and events. Although Bush hates psychological profiles, he reveals a bit of his inner life here. One must search to find the silver and golden threads-but they are there., Scribner, 1999, 3, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed to Charles K [Krauthhammer. 220, [1] p. Selected Bibliography. Index. No modern US president interited a stronger international position than Bill Clinton. In 1992, the Cold War was over, and the nation was at peace and focused on domestic issues. Despite this, Clinton would soon be faced with a barrage of crises, including flare-ups of unrest in the Middle East, ethnic conflict in Yugoslavia, uneasy relations with Japan and China, persistent trouble in the Persian Gulf, the dissolution of the USSR, and disastrous situation in Somalia and Haiti. In this overview of Clinton's foreign policy, the author shows the effects of combining the confusion of a busy overseas agenda with Clinton's personality characteristics. By the second term, he reversed himself on some major aspects of policy, to the benefit of the country and the world at large., Praeger Publishers, 1999, 3, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Books, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xii, 740 pages. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Photo Credit. Index. Slightly shaken and cocked. Bottom edge stained. Includes Part One--Brethren of a Kind (Nixon, Kissinger, and 1968); Part Two--The Limits of Power (The Nixon-Kissinger White House; Hope and Illusion; The Politics of Foreign Policy; Troubles Galore; Crisis Managers; Winter of Discontent); Part Three--The Best of Times (The Road to Détente, Détente in Asia: Gains and Losses; The Warriors as Peacemakers; Tainted Victories; Part Four--The Worst of Times--New Miseries; In the Shadow of Watergate; The Nixon-Kissinger Presidency; and The End of a Presidency. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To: John Fogarty, With Warm Good Wishes, Robert Dallek. Robert A. Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in the presidents of the United States, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. He retired as a history professor at Boston University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Oxford University. He won the Bancroft Prize for his book Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 as well as other awards. In 2007 Dallek published Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, which claims that they were visionaries and cynics at the same time, in an attempt to explain the ups and down of their diplomatic careers. The book was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified archives, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for achievements in foreign affairs. Dallek also brilliantly analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad, while recognizing how both men wee continually plotting to distract the American public's attention from the growing scandal of Watergate. With unprecedented detail, Dallek reveals Nixon's erratic behavior during Watergate and the extent to which Kissinger was complicit in trying to help Nixon use national security to prevent his impeachment or resignation. Derived from a Kirkus review: Two men strive to be somebody, and nearly take down a nation along the way. Historian and biographer Dallek observes that neither Richard Nixon nor Henry Kissinger had much patience with psychoanalysis, but that does not deter him from engaging in a little psychobiography: Both Nixon and Kissinger, who were in essence co-presidents for the last months before Nixon resigned in 1974, were driven, needful men, able to apply themselves to the hardest work and quick to align themselves with those who could advance them. Kissinger, for instance, tried to insinuate himself in the Kennedy administration, but, rebuffed, was happy to find a place in Nixon's. As Dallek shows, Nixon and Kissinger were odd partners, each despising and fearing the other; years into their partnership, Kissinger was nearly the only Nixon administration figure to enjoy high standing in the court of public opinion. Much as he may have wanted to, however, Nixon never fired Kissinger, who in turn helped engineer Nixonian triumphs such as the opening of China and the American withdrawal from Vietnam, but who also authored the loss of Vietnam and, though he denied it, the coup in Chile. Dallek effectively relates Nixon and Kissinger's strange relationship, which crumbled after Nixon left office. Along the way, he offers telling notes that a careful reader will link to current events, such as the congressional veto-busting that led to the War Powers Act and Nixon's last-minute appeal, very late in the game, that America should become energy-independent. In the end, a fine, readable and often disturbing look at power and its infinitely corruptible ways., HarperCollins Books, 2007, 2.75<
