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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雜的關系。他們有很多相似之處，比如都有點偏執(zhí)、有很強的不安全感以及冷酷無情；但同時兩人之間還存在激烈而緊張的權力爭奪。尼克松對基辛格可能會“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對付國會的彈劾威脅。在上世紀七十年代，“水門事件”困擾尼克松之后，時任國務卿的基辛格權力日益擴大。在1973年第三次中東戰(zhàn)爭爆發(fā)后，得到消息的基辛格為了避免尼克松干預此事，在3個多小時后才將此事報告給尼克松……
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.達萊克，波士頓大學歷史學教授，曾任教于哥倫比亞大學，美國加州大學洛杉磯分校以及牛津大學，著名政治傳記作家，專門研究美國總統(tǒng)歷史。
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