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Kissinger

1923-1968: the Idealist

Kissinger( )
Author: Ferguson, Niall
ISBN:978-0-14-102200-0
Publication Date:Nov 2016
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $55.00
Book Description:

No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sought by every president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, Kissinger has also attracted immense hostility from critics who have cast him as an amoral Machiavellian - the ultimate cold-blooded "realist". In this remarkable book, the first of two volumes, Niall Ferguson has created an extraordinary panorama of Kissinger's world,...
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Book Details
Pages:1008
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / United States / 20Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.7 x 19.5 x 4.8 cm
Book Weight:0.73 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ferguson, Niall (Author)
Niall Ferguson was born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow. He is a Scottish historian. He specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

His books include Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (1993), Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997), The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (1998), The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (1998), The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (2001), Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003), Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004), The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008), Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011) , The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, and The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.

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