People of the Century presents the one hundred most influential leaders, artists, intellects, and heroes who shaped this monumental era. Traditional ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics, economics, and even space and time were overthrown and radically refashioned. Airplanes, rockets, satellites, televisions, computers, and atom bombs were built. Plastic, the silicon chip, and rock and roll were invented. This is the century that split the atom, probed the psyche, spliced genes, and cloned a sheep. People of the Century: One Hundred Men & Women Who Shaped the Last One Hundred Years
The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this grandly colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Na*zi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe trotting business consultant. presidents and his business clients, this first full length biography makes use of many of Kissinger‘s private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including U.S. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man’s personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination.
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