The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations [Hardcover]

InThe Kissinger Tapes, Tom Wells has carefully selected, edited, and annotated transcripts of tapes, which chronologically highlight the most momentous crises and controversies of the era. They not only provide many revelations on Kissinger's role in numerous events but also throw his personality and character into sharp relief. The conversations cover a wide range of issues, including the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, the opening to China, the 1973 coup in Chile, the Nixon administration's illegal wiretapping, and the Watergate scandal. They further offer a genuinely unique perspective on one of the most important figures in modern American history.A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era.Henry Kissinger is unquestionably one of the most consequential foreign policy makers in American history. A remarkably influential academic during his long tenure at Harvard, Kissinger became Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor in 1969 and Secretary of State in 1973.Like Nixon, Kissinger left a trail of secretly recorded evidence in his wake. Kissinger began taping in 1969, two years before Nixon did in 1971, and he continued taping for over three years after Nixon's recording system was dismantled in 1973. InThe Kissinger Tapes, Tom Wells draws on his expertise in the Nixon era to provide carefully selected, edited, and annotated transcripts of Kissinger's phone conversations, which chronologically highlight the most momentous crises and controversies of the era. They not only provide context and many revelations on Kissinger's role in numerous events but also throw his personality, character, and checkered record into sharp relief.The conversations cover a wide range of issues, including the Vietnam War, the India-Pakistan conflict, the opl: