Research Catalog

Title

Years of upheaval / Henry Kissinger.

Author

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster trade paperbacks, 2011.

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Details

Description

xxi, 1283 p., [40] p. of plates: ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This second volume of Henry Kissinger's monumental memoirs covers his years as President Richard Nixon's Secretary of State (1972-1974), including the ending of the Vietnam War, the 1973 Middle East War and oil embargo, Watergate, and Nixon's resignation. Years of Upheaval opens with Dr. Kissinger being appointed Secretary of State. Among other events of these turbulent years that he recounts are his trip to Hanoi after the Vietnam cease-fire, his efforts to settle the war in Cambodia, the 'Year of Europe,' two Nixon-Brezhnev summit meetings and the controversies over arms control and détente, the military alert and showdown with the Soviet Union over the Middle East war, the subsequent oil crisis, the origins of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, the fall of Salvador Allende in Chile, and the tumultuous events surrounding Nixon's resignation. Throughout are candid appraisals of world leaders, including Nixon, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, King Faisal, Hafez al-Asad, chairman Mao, Leonid Brezhnev, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Georges Pompidou, and many more. At once illuminating, fascinating, and profound, Years of Upheaval is a lasting contribution to the history of our time by one of its chief protagonists"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Subjects

• Biographies
• 1969-1974
• Statesmen > United States > Biography
• United States > Foreign relations > 1969-1974
• Kissinger, Henry, 1923-

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1982.
• "The second volume of his classic memoirs"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. A moment of hope -- II. A visit to Hanoi -- III. China : another step forward -- IV. The gathering impact of Watergate -- V. The year of Europe -- VI. The Middle East in ferment -- VII. Détente : Zavidovo to San Clemente -- VIII. Indochina : the beginning of the end -- IX. Chile : the fall of Salvador Allende -- X. Becoming Secretary of State -- XI. The Middle East war -- XII. Moscow, the cease-fire, and the alert -- XIII. First Middle East breakthrough -- XIV. Persian Gulf interlude -- XV. The eclipse of Zhou Enlai and another talk with Mao -- XVI. Troubles with allies -- XVII. The Geneva Conference -- XVIII. The first shuttle : Egyptian-Israeli disengagement -- XIX. The energy crisis -- XX. Energy and the democracies -- XXI. The road to Damascus : an exploratory shuttle -- XXII. The decline of détente : a turning point -- XXIII. The Syrian shuttle -- XXIV. The last hurrah -- XXV. The end of the administration.

ISBN

• 9781451636451
• 1451636458
• 9781451636475 (ebook)
• 1451636474 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011453435

OCLC

• 694395295
• SCSB-12691780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library