“Kissinger is a triumph. Isaacon writes…with sympathy, verve, imagination, insight, and a keen eye. A stunning achievement.”

“Confirms Kissinger’s place as one of the great
international players and takes him down a peg as well…Kissinger will rave
about the parts he likes and rage about the rest…This makes for compulsive
reading.”

“In its range and research, it is the book to
end all books on Mr. Kissinger. For his aficionados, it makes compulsive
reading; for students of his years of influence on United States foreign
policy, it is compulsory.”

“Mr. Isaacson’s work is a model of insight, delicacy, and fairness that moves at a lively pace through recent American history and re-creates, inconsiderable depth, the intellectuals and politicians who formed its foreign policy.”

“[A] wonderful, entertaining, definitive biography.”

“Meticulously researched, intelligent, and fair…A
book full of insights.”

“A solidly researched, richly textured, and
extremely readable account of a man in dramatic times who seemed bigger than
life.”

“The fullest account of Kissinger’s life and
career to date, other than for his memoirs…A spooky, engrossing portrait of the
only European-style realist ever to guide US foreign policy.”

“This
biography of Henry Kissinger is enhanced by Malcolm Hillgartner’s
outstanding narration. His delivery is lively, and he’s a great
storyteller—no half-bored professor intoning a history lecture here…The
lengthy book presents a full portrait of Kissinger in all his
egotistical, power-grubbing, brilliant complexity. It covers everything
from his German childhood to his family’s flight from the Nazis, his
college years, and his rise to power as a controversial secretary of
state in the Nixon and Ford administrations.”

“As a commanding opus for the present, enlivened by snippets from hundreds of interviews, Isaacson raises a high bar for any historians who challenge him.”

“Isaacson…has produced much more than another
unauthorized biography…While there are other excellent Kissinger biographies,
this work is the best to date on Henry K. Superstar.”

“A critical but resolutely objective and utterly
fascinating biography of the guileful, egocentric geopolitical scientist who
became America’s most celebrated secretary of state…An authoritative and
comprehensive account…An evenhanded, warts-and-all portrait of a
larger-than-life individual who has left his mark behind.”