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The Legacy of Henry Kissinger

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Henry Kissinger and the American Century

In this book, Jeremy puts Kissinger in the context of the post-World War II era when the US emerged as a global superpower. He got exclusive access to meet with Kissinger about a dozen times to try and understand how this semi-mythical figure understood his own decisions and ideas. "It's hard to find any historical parallel since Rome for the amount of power the United States has after World War II"

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