Volume 19, Number 6 · October 19, 1972
The Education of Henry Kissinger
By I.F. Stone
Metternich
by Alan Palmer
Harper & Row, 405 pp., $12.50
Dear Henry
by Danielle Hunebelle
Berkley, 224 pp., $1.25 (paper)
Kissinger: The Uses of Power
by David Landau
Houghton Mifflin, 270 pp., $5.95
Metternich is Kissinger's hero. There are many resemblances between them. There are even a few between Metternich and Nixon. Like Nixon, Metternich hated 'campus bums,' though he would never have used so vulgar an expression. In the Metternich era, as in the Nixon Administration, editors and newspapermen generally ranked with university teachers and students among the prime objects of suspicion. Agnew's ghost writers might like to quote in his next attack on us 'effete snobs' that gloomy passage in Metternich's secret memorandum to the Tzar Alexander which questioned whether 'society can exist with the liberty of the press, a scourge unknown to the world before the latter half of the seventeenth century….'[1]
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