Christopher Meyer

Where are the Henry Kissingers when we need them?

The Wizard of the Western World is still a controversial figure, but America could do with his rational perspective today

Henry Kissinger briefing journalists at the White House on President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 16 May 2020
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    Barry Gewen

    Norton, pp. 448, £22

It was not until I went to Harvard in 1988 to take a year out from the Foreign Office that I came to realise how riven by ideology the world of US foreign policy had become. For 20 years I had been moulded by the resolute pragmatism of British diplomacy.

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