Looking for books about Henry Kissinger and a critique of his foreign policy. Hoping for a left-leaning narrative. (Yea whatever i don’t care if it has bias, I know what i like)
From 1983, Seymour Hersh’s excellent _The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House_
Hersh is one of the premier investigative journalists of the 20th (and 21st) century, and this is an excellent book!
ksarlathotep on
He’s finally dead, why read a book about him now. Read a book about somebody good.
lizzzzzie_d on
The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation. Not focused on Kissinger but he plays a part.
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I’m halfway through Greg Grandin’s Kissinger’s Shadow. It attempts to be even and impartial, but there is an undertone of distaste.
I will always prefer Hitchens and the gloriously vicious way he shredded Kissinger, though. I was hoping Slate or Vanity Fair had an obit written by Hitchens in their archives to excoriate Kissinger from beyond.
Seymour Hersh also wrote The Price of Power that was light years ahead of its time in the 80’s when most people were still in full thrall to the Kissinger myth. That one might be out of print now.
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger – *Christopher Hitchens*
Or maybe just the [Rolling Stones obit](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/) 😉
From 1983, Seymour Hersh’s excellent _The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House_
Hersh is one of the premier investigative journalists of the 20th (and 21st) century, and this is an excellent book!
He’s finally dead, why read a book about him now. Read a book about somebody good.
The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation. Not focused on Kissinger but he plays a part.
I’m halfway through Greg Grandin’s Kissinger’s Shadow. It attempts to be even and impartial, but there is an undertone of distaste.
I will always prefer Hitchens and the gloriously vicious way he shredded Kissinger, though. I was hoping Slate or Vanity Fair had an obit written by Hitchens in their archives to excoriate Kissinger from beyond.
Seymour Hersh also wrote The Price of Power that was light years ahead of its time in the 80’s when most people were still in full thrall to the Kissinger myth. That one might be out of print now.