Further Reading About Henry Kissinger


General Histories of the Period

Christopher Andrew, For The President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush

Raymond Aron, Peace and War

George Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States in Vietnam, 1950-1975

Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time

Harry Joiner, American Foreign Policy: The Kissinger Era

Walter LaFeber, The American Age

Frank J. Merli and Theodore A. Wilson, The Makers of American Diplomacy:  From Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Kissinger

Paul Nitze, From Hiroshima to Glasnost

Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History

Theodore White, America In Search of Itself

The Early Years

Karl Baedker, Southern Germany

Evi Kurtz, The Kissinger Saga: Walter and Henry Kissinger, Two Brothers from Furth, Germany

Biographies of Henry Kissinger

Niall Ferguson, Kissinger: Volume 1, 1923-1968: The Idealist

Stephen Richards Graubard, Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind

Jussi Hanhimäki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy

Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy

Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography

Marvin L. Kalb and Bernard Kalb, Kissinger

David Landau, Kissinger: The Uses of Power

Bruce Mazlish, Kissinger: The European Mind in American Policy

John G. Stoessinger, Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power

The Nixon Administration and Watergate

Steven Ambrose, Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973 – 1990

Steven Ambrose, Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962 – 1972

Charles Colson, Born Again

Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

John Ehrlichman, Witness to Power

Roland Evans and Robert Novak, Nixon in the White House

Alexander Haig, Caveat

H. R. Haldeman, and Joseph DiMona, The Ends of Power

Robert Hartmann, Palace Politics

Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Henry A. Kissinger, White House Years

Henry A. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, 1973-1977

Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate

J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years

Ron Nessen, It Sure Looks Different From the Inside

Richard M. Nixon, In the Arena

Richard M. Nixon, RN

Herbert Parmet, Richard Nixon and His America

William Safire, Before the Fall

C. L. Sulzberger, The World and Richard Nixon

Richard Thornton, The Nixon-Kissinger Years

Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All The President’s Men

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days

Middle East War and Peace Negotiations

Yehuda Avner, The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership

Hassan Badri, The Ramadan War

Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

Moshe Dayan, Story of My Life

Alan Dowty, Middle East Crisis

Ismail Fahmy, Negotiating for Peace in the Middle East

Isaq Ghanayem, and Alden Voth, The Kissinger Legacy: American Middle East Policy

Galia Golan, Yom Kippur and After

Matti Golan, The Road to Peace: A Biography of Shimon Peres

Matti Golan, The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step-by-Step Diplomacy in the Middle-East

Mohammed Heinkel, The Road to Ramadan

Golda Meir, My Life

Richard B. Parker, The October War

Mahmoud Riad, The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity

Edward Sheehan, The Arabs, Israelis and Kissinger

Gary Sick, All Fall Down

Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents

Diplomacy and Détente

George Ball, Diplomacy for a Crowded World

George Ball, The Past Has Another Pattern

Coral Bell, The Diplomacy of Detente: The Kissinger Era

Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence: Moscow’s Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986)

John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace

Raymond Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation

Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy

Henry A. Kissinger, Diplomacy

Gerard Smith, Doubletalk: The Story of SALT I

Strobe Talbott, Endgame

Vernon A. Walters, Silent Missions

China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Virginia Brodine and Mark Selden, Open Secret: The Kissinger-Nixon Doctrine in Asia

William Burr, The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow

Bui Diem, and David Charnoff, The Jaws of History

Philip Gavin, The Fall of Vietnam

Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts, The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked

Evelyn Goh, Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China: 1961-1974

George Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States in Vietnam, 1950-1975

George Herring, The Pentagon Papers: Abridged Edition

George Herring, The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War

Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History

William Kaufmann, The McNamara Strategy

Henry A. Kissinger, Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America's Involvement in and

Extrication from the Vietnam War

David Kraslow, and Stuart Loory, The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam

Thomas Powers, Vietnam: The War at Home

Jeffrey Record, The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam

Lawrence W. Serewicz, America at the Brink of Empire: Rusk, Kissinger and the Vietnam War

William Shawcross, Sideshow

Brantly Womack, China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry

The Ford Administration

John Casserly, The Ford White House

Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford

Henry A. Kissinger, Years of Renewal

John Osborne, White House Watch: The Ford Years

Latin America

Jules R. Benjamin, The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution

Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum: Genesis of Project FUBELT

Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy

Peter Kornbluh, Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973

Peter Kornbluh, The Pinochet File A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Covert Action in Chile

Tim Wiener, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Peter Winn, Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1972-2002