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Partners in Power
HarperCollins
May 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Featuring: Richard Nixon; Henry Kissinger
752 pages
ISBN: 0060722304
EAN: 9780060722302
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F.
Kennedy, An Unfinished Life, Robert Dallek cemented his
reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time.
Now, in this epic joint biography, he offers a provocative,
groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose
unlikely partnership dominated the world stage and changed
the course of history. More than thirty years after working side-by-side in the
White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger remain two of
the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful men in
America in the second half of the twentieth century. While
their personalities could hardly have seemed more different,
they were drawn together by the same magnetic force. Both
were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven
by their own inner demons, and often ruthless in pursuit of
their goals. At the height of their power, the collaboration
and rivalry between them led to a sweeping series of
policies that would leave a defining mark on the Nixon
presidency. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified archives,
Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and
Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and the extent
to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for
achievements in foreign affairs. Dallek also brilliantly
analyzes their dealings with power brokers at home and
abroad—including the nightmare of Vietnam, the unprecedented
opening to China, détente with the Soviet Union, the Yom
Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of
Allende in Chile, and growing tensions between India and
Pakistan—while recognizing how both men were continually
plotting to distract the American public's attention from
the growing scandal of Watergate. With unprecedented detail,
Dallek reveals Nixon's erratic behavior during Watergate and
the extent to which Kissinger was complicit in trying to
help Nixon use national security to prevent his impeachment
or resignation. Illuminating, authoritative, revelatory, and utterly
engrossing, Nixon and Kissinger provides a startling new
picture of the immense power and sway these two men held in
changing world history.
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