Kissinger

Critics Review

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

  Stephen E. Ambrose, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “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.”

  Peter Jennings

• “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.”

  New York Times

• “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.”

  New Yorker

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

  Los Angeles Times Book Review

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

  Washington Post

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

  Boston Sunday Globe

• “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.”

  Publishers Weekly

• “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.”

  AudioFile

• “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.”

  Booklist

• “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.”

  Library Journal

• “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.”

  Kirkus Reviews