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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, an American Machiavelli, a diplomatic superstar - how Henry Kissinger built his legacyHenry Kissinger spent just eight years in office, as US National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, and briefly both at once. Yet somehow he became the most garlanded - and most notorious - diplomat of the twentieth century, dominating the public stage long after leaving government. How did this happen For nearly half a century, Kissinger relentlessly burnished his reputation, determined to secure his place in the pantheon of great statesmen.Barbara J. Keys unveils Kissinger as a master of reputation management: lavishing access and charm on sympathetic journalists, publishers, and broadcasters, while deploying legal threats and backroom pressure against critics. He hosted biographers in his sprawling estate in Connecticut, leveraged his secretive consulting business into continuing influence, and carefully cultivated allies across the American establishment. Along the way, he seduced the institutions meant to hold power to account - and succeeded in building a legacy no one can ignore.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - "Super K is downright hilarious. Who would have thought a biography of Henry Kissinger could be so laugh-out-loud revealing about the great pontificator But Barbara Keys has written an incisive and entertaining intellectual history of Kissinger's quest to shape his reputation." Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of New York Times bestselling American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump The untold story of how Henry Kissinger spent five decades building and protecting a legacy that continues to influence modern politicsand the institutions that helped him do it.In the nearly fifty years after he left public office, Henry Kissinger remained one of the most admiredand controversialfigures in American public life. Super K reveals how he manufactured this extraordinary fame. Drawing on previously unseen private correspondence and interviews with journalists and editors he courted and battled, historian Barbara J. Keys exposes the machinery Kissinger used to build and defend his reputation. From fierce battles over his record in Cambodia and Chile to high-stakes confrontations with television networks and major publishers, Kissinger spent nearly five decades shaping how the world remembered his eight years in power and leveraging those years into continuing influence. In the process, he helped write the playbook for the modern political celebrity. Super K is not just a portrait of one man's quest to shape history; it is a sweeping account of the media and elite institutions that enabled him, revealing vulnerabilities that still shape public and political life today. Insightful and deeply researched, this is a definitive look at how reputations are manufactured and why they matter.…

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