Drawing not only on Kissinger's hitherto closed private papers but
also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the
world, this biography is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. Like his
classic two-volume history of the House of
Rothschild,Kissingersheds dazzling new light on an entire
era.
Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is
the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a
Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in
Beijing.
He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of
Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus,
Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The
Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and
The Great Degeneration. His Kissinger, a
feature-length film based on his interviews with Henry Kissinger,
won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for best documentary.
His many other prizes and awards include the Benjamin Franklin
Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime
Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic
Journalism (2013).
%%%Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He
is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard
University, a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua
University in Beijing.
He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of
Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus,
Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The
Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization and
The Great Degeneration. His Kissinger, a
feature-length film based on his interviews with Henry Kissinger,
won the 2011 New York Film Festival prize for best documentary.
His many other prizes and awards include the Benjamin Franklin
Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime
Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic
Journalism (2013).
The first volume of Ferguson's life of Kissinger is a great work
about a great man by - it has to be admitted - a great historian.
It should be read, and enjoyed, by every serious student of the
history of our times * The Spectator *
If Kissinger's official biographer cannot be accused of falling for
his subject's justifiably famed charm, he certainly gives the
reader enough evidence to conclude that Henry Kissinger is one of
the greatest Americans in the history of the Republic, someone who
has been repulsively traduced over several decades and who deserved
to have defense of this comprehensiveness published years
ago....Niall Ferguson already has many important, scholarly and
controversial books to his credit. But if the second volume of
"Kissinger" is anywhere near as comprehensive, well written and
riveting as the first, this will be his masterpiece -- Andrew
Roberts * New York Times *
Niall Ferguson...has chosen to tackle this topic on the grandest
possible scale...I acquired valuable knowledge, elegantly conveyed
-- Paul Johnson * Standpoint Magazine *
The book illustrates just what an extraordinary human being
Kissinger is -- Robert Service * Daily Telegraph *
Like Mr Kissinger or loathe him, this is a work of engrossing
scholarship * The Economist *
this is a superb history of the modern world as well as a biography
of Kissinger... Ferguson's tour de force shows that because
Kissinger was a refugee from horror he understood from the day he
first saw the Statue of Liberty that US engagement is vital to the
peaceful development of the world -- William Shawcross * The Times
*
Ferguson is undoubtedly persuasive in presenting the young
Kissinger as a man of ideals as well as ideas. His advantage as the
authorised biographer, deployed with full force, has been access to
a vast mass of previously unseen private correspondence that
reveals his subject as nothing like the calucating cold fish of
legend -- Marcus Tanner * Independent *
With his usual meticulous research, Ferguson is master of all his
work surveys. At least as important, he writes in an unobtrusive
but compelling style that carries the reader along with unforced
ease. Even on its own, the first volume of Ferguson's life of
Kissinger is a great work about a great man by - it has to be
admitted - a great historian. It should be read, and enjoyed, by
every serious student of the history of our times -- Sherard
Cowper-Coles * Spectator *
For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore
Kissinger - 1923-1968: the idealist (Allen Lane), the first
volume of Niall Ferguson's biography of Henry Kissinger, which asks
us to reconsider America's best-known "realist" as more Kantian
than Machiavellian, more Castlereagh than Meternich, at least up to
1968, when President Nixon first granted the Harvard academic high
office. -- John Bew * New Statesman *
Some might question whether Ferguson really needs 1000 pages to
tell half of Kissinger's life. Other will revel in the wealth of
detail on this most controversial of American statesman -- Bee
Wilson * Sunday Times *
a formidably detailed, closely argued study of the making of one of
the giants of 20th-century foreign policy -- Gideon Rachman * FT *
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