Alistair Horne, the writer of the book selected 1973 as the crucial year not only for Kissinger or United States of America but also for the world, because of major events shattered America surrounding the defeat in Vietnam war, Watergate scandal that culminating President Nixon’s resignation, war in the Middle East - the Yom Kippur war, Augusto Pinochet coup d’etat in Chile, and finally the economic collapse caused by Arab oil embargo. Kissinger was also the architect who opened the relationship with China and Russia (USSR at that time) in the post war era. He chatted with Chairman Mao Zedong as friend, and walked with Leonid Brezhnev in a relax manner despite the seriousness of the political talk. In this book, the story of the 1973 crucial year is actually a portrait of a man named Heinz (Henry) Alfred Kissinger who played an important role on the foreign policy of America, not only in that year but also that his trail of formulation of the foreign policy of America continues to...
Life is beautiful, and also..., simple.