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Article: Crisis: the Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises.(Book Review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- September 22, 2004
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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises. By Henry Kissinger. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 564 pp. $30 ($18, paper).
In these gleanings from his voluminous memoirs, Kissinger lets us eavesdrop on his telephone conversations during two of the most dramatic periods during his tenure as secretary of state--the Yom Kippur War in 1973 (80 percent of the book) and the eve of the final U.S. pullout from Vietnam. More than 500 pages of telephone transcripts, including garbles and non sequiturs, linked only by brief commentary, would ordinarily dull even attentive minds. But Crisis proves to be a page-turner although it does not much matter if you turn ...