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More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. From January 1969 to August 1974, their collaboration and rivalry resulted in the making of foreign policy that would leave a defining mark on the Nixon presidency.
Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified documents and tapes, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for foreign policy achievements. With unprecedented detail, Dallek reveals Nixon's erratic behavior during Watergate and the extent to which Kissinger was complicit in trying to help Nixon use national security to prevent his impeachment or resignation.
Illuminating, authoritative, revelatory, and utterly engrossing, Nixon and Kissinger provides a startling new picture of the immense power and sway these two men held in affecting world history.
尼克松和基辛格之間存在一種復(fù)雜的關(guān)系。他們有很多相似之處，比如都有點(diǎn)偏執(zhí)、有很強(qiáng)的不安全感以及冷酷無(wú)情；但同時(shí)兩人之間還存在激烈而緊張的權(quán)力爭(zhēng)奪。尼克松對(duì)基辛格可能會(huì)“功高震主”感到不滿，但是他又需要利用基辛格的外交才能來(lái)對(duì)付國(guó)會(huì)的彈劾威脅。在上世紀(jì)七十年代，“水門(mén)事件”困擾尼克松之后，時(shí)任國(guó)務(wù)卿的基辛格權(quán)力日益擴(kuò)大。在1973年第三次中東戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)爆發(fā)后，得到消息的基辛格為了避免尼克松干預(yù)此事，在3個(gè)多小時(shí)后才將此事報(bào)告給尼克松……
About Author
Robert Dallek is a professor of history at Boston University and the writer of political biographies. He has also taught at Columbia, UCLA, and Oxford Universities.
羅伯特.達(dá)萊克，波士頓大學(xué)歷史學(xué)教授，曾任教于哥倫比亞大學(xué)，美國(guó)加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校以及牛津大學(xué)，著名政治傳記作家，專(zhuān)門(mén)研究美國(guó)總統(tǒng)歷史。
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