A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency - Softcover

Bundy William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809016249 ISBN 13: 9780809016242

Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

An authoritative historical assessment of american foreign policy in a crucial postwar decade.

William Bundy's magisterial book focuses on the controversial record of Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's often overpraised foreign policy of 1969 to 1973, an era that has rightly been described as the hinge on which the last half of the century turned. Bundy's principled, clear-eyed assessment in effect pulls together all the major issues and events of the thirty-year span from the 1940s to the end of the Vietnam War, and makes it clear just how dangerous the consequences of Nixon and Kissinger's deceptive modus operandi were.

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Review

Commentators have often argued that Richard Nixon's greatest strength was in foreign policy, and that his work in the international arena would be his true legacy. Offering a balanced, though ultimately critical, view of Nixon as foreign-policy strategist is William Bundy, a former intelligence officer and the former editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. Bundy writes with prodigious detail about the great international events of the Nixon years, including not only Nixon's handling of Vietnam, China and the Middle East, but also the role the U.S. played in Chile, Iran and in the Indo-Pakistan war. And, of course, Bundy also examines closely the role played by Henry Kissinger in the great diplomatic endeavours and the mysterious secret operations of the Nixon Administration. The debate about Nixon and Kissinger's foreign policy will no doubt continue for decades, and A Tangled Web will likely be a major resource for those who wish to understand those significant years. --Robert McNamara

About the Author

William Bundy held key positions in the Defense and State Departments from 1951 to 1969 and in the Central Intelligence Agency, and served as the editor of Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1984. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0809016249
• ISBN 13: 9780809016242
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672