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He comments frequently on KissingerвЂ™s unending reservoirs of energy, his stubborn perseverance, his uncanny ability to charm powerful people.

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Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. Kissinger often made policy and explained it to the president later. NixonвЂ™s successor, Gerald Ford, had little knowledge of or experience in the region.

He reported to a volatile, self-destructive president who was spiraling into depression during the Watergate investigations. He did all of this while shuttling between their capitals and managing a range of additional foreign policy crises in Vietnam, Chile, southern Africa and other Cold War hot spots. Kissinger gained command over minute details about borders and settlements, as he simultaneously threatened his counterparts and earned their trust. He spent the better part of three years in marathon meetings with Israeli, Egyptian and Syrian leaders that often turned into heated arguments and extended haggling sessions. When the Israeli Army turned the tide and entered Egyptian and Syrian territory, Kissinger dived into the maelstrom to negotiate an end to the conflict. After a coalition of Arab states attacked and nearly destroyed Israel during the Yom Kippur observance of 1973, Kissinger managed the emergency resupply of Israeli military forces by the United States.

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The strongest case for KissingerвЂ™s heroism is found in his Middle East diplomacy, chronicled in fascinating day-by-day detail by Indyk in вЂњMaster of the Game.вЂќ Serving as President Richard NixonвЂ™s foreign policy surrogate, Kissinger turned a series of disasters into opportunities for remaking the region. Among modern statesmen, only Winston Churchill wrote more to promote himself. Kissinger has made the case for himself in an outpouring of thick, ponderous books, most especially his more than 3,000 pages of memoirs, published in three volumes. Martin IndykвЂ™s book places Kissinger in a class with Metternich and other вЂњmasters of the game.вЂќ He is not the first to do this. He was the model diplomat of his age, and the inspiration for many followers, including the American national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

At the dawn of the 19th century, Prince Metternich of Austria famously negotiated a century of peace among the European kingdoms that had fought one another nonstop for a hundred years. They are the men who walk along the edges of battlefields and persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms, turning swords into plowshares.

MASTER OF THE GAME Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy By Martin IndykДiplomats are often the heroes of history.

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