A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, …
The institutions of democracy had not prevented Hitler’s rise; they had facilitated it. Most American policymakers, then or later, had no way of responding to that fact, no way even of incorporating it into their conceptual apparatus, but it was a reality Kissinger could never ignore.
— The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen (10%)