Volume 36, Number 18 · November 23, 1989
The Perfect In-and-Outer
By Stanley Hoffmann
From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, A Memoir
by Paul H. Nitze, with Ann M. Smith, by Steven L. Rearden
Grove Weidenfeld, 504 pp., $25.00
Paul Nitze's life should be an interesting subject. To the extent that there is an 'establishment' in America and a 'national security community' in Washington, Paul Nitze has long been prominent in both. A former vice-president of the Dillon, Read investment firm on Wall Street, he has had much to do with making defense policy for more than forty years. And yet Nitze's memoirs are dull and dry.
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