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The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Seymour M. Hersh

What did the pursuit of diplomatic triumphs cost the people who ran American foreign policy under Nixon and Kissinger, and the country?

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Author
Seymour M. Hersh

Why read it

  • You will see how secrecy and personal ambition can sit beside real diplomatic success
  • You will learn to ask what a leader is not telling the public, and what the secrecy costs
  • You will understand how decisions on China, arms control and Vietnam were made, and who made them

Who it is for

  • A voter who wants to judge leaders by how they use power
  • A staffer who works close to a powerful boss
  • A student of diplomacy comparing results with methods

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. THE JOB SEEKER
  3. A NEW NSC SYSTEM
  4. CONSOLIDATING AUTHORITY
  5. VIETNAM: THE POLICY
  6. CAMBODIA: THE SECRET BOMBING
  7. KOREA: THE FIRST CRISIS
  8. THE WIRETAPS
  9. DECAY
  10. INTRIGUES
  11. VIETNAM: PLANNING FOR GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
  12. A GREEK TRAGEDY AND A CIVIL WAR IN AFRICA
  13. SALT: A MIRV MISTAKE
  14. SALT: A MISTAKE BECOMES A POLICY
  15. SOUTHEAST ASIA: POLICY CHANGE AND ESCALATION
  16. CAMBODIA: THE COUP
  17. VIETNAM: A SPRING INVASION
  18. IN FULL CONTROL
  19. MIDEAST: THE ROGERS PLAN
  20. MIDEAST: MISPERCEPTIONS IN JORDAN
  21. CUBA: A FALSE CRISIS
  22. CHILE: HARDBALL
  23. CHILE: GET RID OF ALLENDE
  24. VIETNAM: THE QUAGMIRE DEEPENS
  25. PROTECTING THE SECRETS
  26. SALT: A GRAIN DEAL
  27. CHINA: OPENING MOVES
  28. CHINA: KISSINGER’S SECRET TRIP
  29. THE PLUMBERS
  30. MIDEAST: FINAL DEFEAT FOR ROGERS
  31. A BERLIN SETTLEMENT
  32. VIETNAM: A MISSED CHANCE
  33. THE INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
  34. SPYING ON KISSINGER
  35. VIETNAM: GOING PUBLIC
  36. CHINA: A PRIME-TIME VISIT
  37. VIETNAM: HANOI’S OFFENSIVE
  38. SALT: THE MOSCOW SUMMIT
  39. VIETNAM: INTENSE NEGOTIATIONS
  40. VIETNAM: POLITICS BEFORE PEACE
  41. VIETNAM: THE CHRISTMAS BOMBS
  42. THE PRICE OF POWER
  43. EPILOGUE

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