Nixon and Kissinger : partners in power / Robert Dallek.

Nixon and Kissinger : partners in power / Robert Dallek.

First edition.

0060722304 hardcover alkaline paper
9780060722302 hardcover alkaline paper
9780060722319 paperback
0060722312 paperback

New York : HarperCollins Pub., [2007]

©2007

English

xii, 740 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

E856 .D35 2007

973.924092/2

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and important leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into recently disclosed documents and tapes, historian Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship -- their collaboration and rivalry -- and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in foreign policy achievements. He also analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and abroad, including the nightmare of Vietnam, the brilliant opening to China, détente with the Soviet Union, the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of Allende in Chile, and growing tensions between India and Pakistan, while recognizing how both men were continually plotting to distract the American public's attention away from the growing scandal of Watergate.--From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [697]-700) and index.

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