The eagerly awaited third and final volume of memoir from the best-known American diplomats of the twentieth century?Henry Kissinger, a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best-informed, and most articulate men ever to occupy a position of power in Washington.
This is at once an important historical document and a brilliantly told narrative of almost Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights, unusual (and often unsparing) candor, and a sweeping sense of history.
Years of Renewal is the triumphant conclusion of a major achievement and a book that will stand the test of time as a historical document of the first rank.
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Henry Kissinger was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a US citizen in 1943. He served in the US Army in Europe in World War Two and attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he later became a member of the faculty. Among the awards he has received are the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut.
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CONTENTS
List of Maps
Foreword
1. A Ford, Not a Lincoln
The Changing of the Guard
The New President
The Domestic Crisis
Ford and Congress
Ford and the National Interest
Part One: THE NIXON LEGACY
2. The Man and the Organization
At the Edge of Greatness
The President and His Adviser
Nixon and the Establishment
Nixon the Person
The Taping System
The Operation of the Nixon White House
The National Security Council System
Epilogue
3. Controversy over Détente
What Was Détente?
The Attack on Nixon's Foreign Policy: The Liberal Challenge
The Conservative Critique
Senator Henry Jackson and Détente: Strategy and Arms Control
4. Jackson, Arms Control, and Jewish Emigration
Arms Control
Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union
5. China and Its Leaders
Two Styles of Diplomacy
Mao Zedong
Zhou Enlai
Deng Xiaoping
Part Two: FORD AT THE HELM
6. The New Presidency
The Transition
The Ford Team
Ford and His Secretary of State
7. Cyprus, a Case Study in Ethnic Conflict
The Nature of Ethnic Conflicts
Makarios: The Wily Archbishop
Greek-Turkish Minuets
Cyprus Erupts
The Turkish Invasion
The Second Turkish Intervention
Congress and Cyprus
Conclusion
Part Three: EAST-WEST RELATIONS
8. Ford Inherits the Debate over Détente
Hearings on Détente
The Debate on Arms Control Resumes
Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union
9. A Visit with Brezhnev
Brezhnev and the Kremlin Leaders
The Kremlin's Perspective on Détente
In the Politburo Chambers
A Step Toward a Breakthrough
Nuclear Condominium
10. Vladivostok and the Crisis in American-Soviet Relations
Arrival in Vladivostok
First Plenary Meeting
The Aftermath of Vladivostok: Détente Under Stress
Jewish Emigration and the Collapse of the Trade Bill
Final Note
11. The Intelligence Investigations
Prelude to the Investigations
Ford Charts a Course
The Rockefeller Commission
The Church Committee
The Pike Committee
Was There an Intelligence Scandal and What Was the Outcome?
Part Four: BREAKTHROUGH IN THE MIDDLE EAST
12. Ford and Middle East Diplomacy
The Cauldron
Forging a New Strategy
The Jordanian Option
The Egyptian Option
Hussein and the Peace Process
Two More Arab Visitors: Syria and Saudi Arabia
Rabin Visits Ford
The Rabat Decision
13. One Shuttle Too Many
Post-Rabat Blues
The Exploratory Shuttle
The Shuttle That Failed
14. Sinai II and the Road to Peace
"Reassessment"
The Resumption of Step-by-Step Policy
Ford and Sadat
Ford and Rabin: Another Encounter
Forging a New Initiative
Another Shuttle
The Leaders and the Outcome
Part Five: COLLAPSE IN INDOCHINA, TRAGEDY OF THE KURDS
15. Indochina Tragedy -- The Beginning of the End
The Strangulation of Vietnam
Ford and Vietnam
Hanoi's Buildup
Hanoi Resumes the Offensive
The End of the Road
16. The Collapse of Cambodia
The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia
The Final Collapse
17. The End of Vietnam
The Debate over Evacuation
The Search for a Political Solution
The Evacuation
The Last Day
18. Anatomy of a Crisis: The Mayaguez
How to Liberate a Ship
The Freeing of the Mayaguez
Postmortems
19. Tragedy of the Kurds
Origins of the Program
Internal Controversies
The End of Kurdish Autonomy
The Collapse of Kurdish Resistance
Part Six: THE ATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP
20. The Restoration of Western Unity
Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: The Operation of the Special Relationship
Helmut Schmidt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher: Alliance and Unification
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing -- France: Ally or Gadfly?
Eurocommunism and the Atlantic Alliance
21. The European Security Conference
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Prelude to Helsinki
Helsinki
Aftermath
22. The Energy Crisis
An Emerging Strategy
A Long-Term Strategy
The Implementation of the Energy Program
Consumer Solidarity: Meeting with Giscard at Martinique
Separate Oil Deals
The Rambouillet Summit
The Consumer/Producer Dialogue
Part Seven: LATIN AMERICA
23. Panama, Mexico, and the "New Dialogue"
Nixon and the "Mature Partnership"
Panama Canal Negotiations: First Phase
Mexico and the New Dialogue
The Conference of Tlatelolco
The End of the New Dialogue
24. Brazil, Chile, and Western Hemisphere Unity
First Visit to Latin America: Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil
Chile, Human Rights, and the Organization of American States
Panama
Conclusion
25. Cuban Interlude
The Dialogue
Sources of Cuban Conduct
Part Eight: RELATIONS WITH THE COMMUNIST WORLD
26. Civil War in Angola
Gathering Storm Clouds
The Beginning of the Involvement
Angola Strategy Discussions: The African Bureau
The Angolan Strategy
The Diplomatic Framework
The Tunney and Clark Amendments
27. Last Visit to Moscow
The Halloween Massacre
The New Team in Action
The End of East-West Negotiations
The Doctrine That Never Was: Sonnenfeldt and Eastern Europe
28. Preserving the Sino-American Relationship
A Visit to Beijing
Dialogue with Deng and Mao
Conversation with Mao
Ford and Mao: The 1975 Summit
Domestic Distractions
Part Nine: SOUTHERN AFRICA
29. An African Strategy
The Challenge
The World Looks at Angola
Shaping of an Angolan Strategy
Components of a Strategy
African Policy and the Domestic Consensus
30. First Visit to Africa
Anthony Crosland and the Role of Britain
Jomo Kenyatta: The Ext…