Yet he argues, incessantly, that everything else went sour because America dismantled its President's Kissinger demonstrates the ways in which he nonetheless turned the Middle East war to American advantage and toward the possibility of Arab-Israeli peace. Lost, in 1973-74, besides a President and Vice President, were the ''peace with honor'' purchased at horrendous cost in Vietnam the sense of shared purposeĪmong the Western allies the domestic consensus for taming Soviet power with the carrots and sticks of detente the momentum toward nuclear arms control and the cheap oil that made the West rich.

It was the year of the Yom Kippur war and of collapse in almost every arena. Of the Lincoln Bedroom, beside a Secretary of State who can now remember awe - but not his own posture or prayer. The book begins with his baptism as Secretary of State by a grudging President floating in a swimming pool at San Clemente it ends with that President on his knees at the door

Most glamorous and probably most powerful man in America. This volume recounts that incredible year, between the summers of 19, in which the refugee from Nazi Germany became the It carries on the performance, aiming to demonstrate that survival is ethic enough in a lawless world, and that people who master the art are obliged to keep teaching it, to save the planet fromĪs Richard Nixon's Presidency expired, Kissinger's already great influence soared. But in the telling, the book cannot help celebrating the incomparable Kissinger feats of survival. Yet endlessly fascinating memoirs mourns this burden, the ''tragedy'' of Watergate that ruined his six-ring act. HENRY KISSINGER so obviously enjoyed walking the high wire with the world on his shoulders, it is hard to believe he really minded having to do it with a crippled President tied to his back. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy MAX FRANKEL Max Frankel is editor of the editorial page of The New York Times. The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪpril 4, 1982, Sunday, Late City Final Edition

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