Volume 19, Number 7 · November 2, 1972
The Flowering of Henry Kissinger
By I.F. Stone
Kissinger: The Uses of Power
by David Landau
Houghton Mifflin, 270 pp., $5.95
Metternich
by Alan Palmer
Harper & Row, 405 pp., $12.50
For a book that developed from the pages of the Harvard Crimson as part of the student revolt against the Vietnam war and Kissinger's part in it, David Landau's Kissinger: The Uses of Power opens with a prologue full of romantic nonsense. 'Kissinger,' he writes, 'is not a man who blindly seeks power…. It is true that he has an unusual impulse toward power and authority, but it is an impulse that springs from a strong sense of personal mission….' This sounds more like a press release from Herbert Klein than a put-down from a campus radical.
Review, 6018 words
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