#Barry Gewen

[deadpresidents]

Tangentially presidential, but do you have recommendations for biographies of Clarence Thomas and/or Henry Kissinger?

I don't have any suggestions for books about Thomas, but I can recommend a bunch on Kissinger. I think it's especially important to read different books about Kissinger to get a more balanced viewpoint because many books about him tend to be slanted in one direction or the other -- more so than most historical figures, in my opinion. He just tends to inspire particularly strong opinions, so here are a few books on him that I've found interesting:

•The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (BOOK | KINDLE) by Barry Gewen •Kissinger (BOOK | KINDLE) by Walter Isaacson •Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist (BOOK | KINDLE) by Niall Ferguson •Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (BOOK | KINDLE) by Martin Indyk •Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman (BOOK | KINDLE) by Greg Grandin

There are also some really good dual biographies about Kissinger and Nixon and their foreign policy: •Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (BOOK | KINDLE) by Robert Dallek •The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (BOOK | KINDLE) by Gary J. Bass •The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (BOOK | KINDLE) by Seymour M. Hersh •Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross

And I want to also mention these two books, which are heavier reads but really important studies about the international impact of the Nixon/Kissinger foreign policy (and a helpful reminder about American complicity in the overthrow and death of democratically-elected Chilean President Salvador Allende) : •Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile (BOOK | KINDLE) by Lubna Z. Qureshi •Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (BOOK | KINDLE) by Roham Alvandi

[bigtickhk]

The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen

US: https://amzn.to/2YpiGPz 

UK: https://amzn.to/3cq6gu6

[iandroideu]

The Inevitability of Tragedy by way of Barry Gewen #Biography&Memoir https://t.co/PBGHFYYSLT http://twitter.com/iandroideu1/status/1255429326583091201

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[mironivanov]

The Angry Children Are Our Future

Lydia Millet talks about “A Children’s Bible,” and Barry Gewen discusses “The Inevitability of Tragedy.”

[olivialilylee]

By BY BARRY GEWEN from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YO9Afm via Books and Literature, United States International Relations, Politics and Government, Cold War Era New York Times https://ift.tt/2YO9Afm May 9, 2020 at 02:30PM https://ift.tt/2LhojY8

[javierpenadea]

"The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say" by BY BARRY GEWEN via NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YO9Afm

[leanpick]

How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? THE INEVITABILITY OF TRAGEDYHenry Kissinger and His WorldBy Barry Gewen When the nefarious Cardinal Richelieu died in 1642, Pope Urban VIII is said to have declared: “If there is a God, the Cardinal de Richelieu will have much to answer for.

[topnewsfromtheworld]

Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95

By BARRY GEWEN Mr. Glazer often waded into heated debates over contentious issues about race, ethnicity, immigration and education. Published: January 19, 2019 at 01:00AM from NYT Obituaries https://nyti.ms/2W6Yui2

[izayoi1242]

Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95

By BARRY GEWEN Mr. Glazer often waded into heated debates over contentious issues about race, ethnicity, immigration and education. Published: January 19, 2019 at 09:00AM from NYT Obituaries https://nyti.ms/2W6Yui2 via IFTTT

[bigtickhk]

The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen https://amzn.to/2YpiGPz

[ahb-writes]

Fareed Zakaria’s 2020 Books of the Week

CNN foreign affairs anchor Fareed Zakaria’s weekly book highlight is always an interesting checkpoint for what’s salient in the global stata. His 2020 Books of the Week list.

12/20/2020 — — Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope, Melting Pot or Civil War? by Reihan Salam, The American Story by David M. Rubenstein, Humankind by Rutger Bregman, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

12/06/2020 — — The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich

11/22/2020 — — A Promised Land by Barack Obama

10/04/2020 — — Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

09/27/2020 — — Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care? by Ezekiel Emanuel

08/23/2020 — — The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel

07/12/2020 — — The Precipice by Toby Ord

07/05/2020 — — Humankind by Rutger Bregman

06/28/2020 — — The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen

06/07/2020 — — Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

05/17/2020 — — The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass & The New Class War by Michael Lind

05/03/2020 — — Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani

04/26/2020 — — The Plot Against America on HBO

04/05/2020 — — The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter

03/29/2020 — — Less by Andrew Sean Greer & East of Eden by John Steinbeck

03/08/2020 — — The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon

02/23/2020 — — Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Fred P. Hochberg

02/16/2020 — — The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat

02/09/2020 — — Erdogan’s Empire by Soner Cagaptay

01/26/2020 — — City of Thieves by David Benioff

01/12/2020 — — All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer

01/05/2020 — — A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves by Jason DeParle

[togiweb]

Dissecting Kissinger, and Other Letters to the Editor

Dissecting Kissinger, and Other Letters to the Editor

Kissinger Agonistes

To the Editor:

After reading John A. Farrell’s May 3 review of Barry Gewen’s “The Inevitability of Tragedy,” it seems the greatest question about Henry Kissinger should be how someone who saw how the Nazis used power capriciously and in the name of the nation, costing millions of lives, could support policies in the name of a different nation that also led to the deaths of…

[scvpubliclib]

Lydia Millet talks about “A Children’s Bible,” and Barry Gewen discusses “The Inevitability of Tragedy.”

[badgirlnila]

The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say by Barry Gewen via NYT > Books https://ift.tt/3cj0M5g

[javierpenadea]

"Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95" by BARRY GEWEN via NYT Obituaries https://nyti.ms/2W6Yui2