This first volume, Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist, is masterful. It exhibits a maturity of expression and judgment that is immensely impressive. It points irresistibly to the forthcoming second ...

In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is completing the second-volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger, mentions ...

A few years ago, I attended a lecture where historian Niall Ferguson explained how Henry Kissinger approached him at a cocktail reception to ask if Ferguson would be interested in writing a biography ...

He was taught early to be a diplomat. And a tough negotiator. Young Sgt. Henry Kissinger, being a native of Germany, would naturally be stationed there during the war. Since he spoke the language, he ...

Volume 1. 1923-1968 : The idealist -- Heimat -- Escape -- Fürth on the Hudson -- An Unexpected Private -- The Living and the Dead -- In the Ruins of the Reich -- The Idealist -- Psychological Warfare ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Sir Niall Ferguson, Why We Study History: Standing at the Crossroads of Past, Present and Future, 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Granada Theatre. A foremost historian ...

Kissinger, a new two-part, three-hour biography, offers an incisive portrait of Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic powerbroker who served in the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Whether celebrated ...

When the late Henry Kissinger — who died a year ago, on Nov. 29 — published his essay “How the Enlightenment Ends” in June 2018, many were surprised that the elder ...