Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders. A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet...
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quick facts
Birthdate:May 27, 1923
Birthplace:Fürth
Age:89
Education:Harvard University, City College of New York
Religion:Judaism
Also known as:Henry A. Kissinger, Henry Kissinger, Henry A Kissinger

Honors and Awards

YearAwardWork
1980 National Book Award for History The White House
1980 Nominated - National Book Award for History (Hardcover) White House years
1958 Nominated - National Book Award for Nonfiction Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
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Written works by Henry Kissinger

  • Diplomacy
  • A World Restored
    A World Restored
  • The White House
    The White House
  • Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
    Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
  • The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy
    The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy
TitlePublishedGenre
Diplomacy 1994
A World Restored
The White House
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy 1957 Non-fiction
The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy 1961
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century 2001
Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays 1985
On Men and Power: A Political Memoir 1990
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 1983
The Troubled Partnership: A Re-Appraisal of the Atlantic Alliance 1965
American Foreign Policy: Three essays 1969
Bureaucracy, politics, and strategy
UNCTAD IV
Global peace, the Middle East, and the United States
Report of Secretary of State Kissinger on his visits to Latin America, Western Europe, and Africa
Henry A. Kissinger speaks on Communist parties in Western Europe, challenge to the West, at the Conference on Italy and Eurocommunism sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1977
mundo restaurado
Reflections, October 2001
Hemispheric cooperation for development
Building an enduring foreign policy
Human rights and the Western Hemisphere
Problems of national strategy
troubled partnership
White Youse Years Special Income
export of nuclear technology
global challenge and international cooperation
Observations
Years of upheaval
Crisis
America and Asia
International law, world order, and human progress
For the record
Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
Southern Africa and the United States, an agenda for cooperation
Qirāʼah fī mudhakkirāt Kīsinjir
Diplomatie
Global consensus and economic development
Years of Renewal: The Concluding Volume of his Memoirs 1999 Non-fiction
Latin America, Europe, and Africa
Communist parties in western Europe
Crisis : The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
Les années de renouveau
Ending the Vietnam War
Cohesion of industrial democracies, precondition for global progress
future of America's foreign policy
United States and Latin America, the new opportunity
National Security Council
Nuclear nonproliferation
White House years
Die Herausforderung Amerikas. Weltpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert
American foreign policy
Egypt-Israel agreement
Major statements on Latin America
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Henry Kissinger quotes

  • The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

    - Henry Kissinger
  • If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

    - Henry Kissinger
  • It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

    - Henry Kissinger
  • For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

    - Henry Kissinger
  • We are all the President's men.

    - Henry Kissinger

Movies with appearances by Henry Kissinger

Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace
Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace
Release date:2009
Directed by:Harry Hunkele
Genre:Documentary
Estimated budget:$1,850,000
Life & Times of Pope John Paul II
Life & Times of Pope John Paul II
Release date:2003
Directed by:Terence McKenna
Genre:Biography
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped the Generation
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped the Generation
Release date:1997

Books about Henry Kissinger

Personal relationships of Henry Kissinger

Significant OtherRelationship
Nancy Kissinger Marriage
Ann Fleischer Marriage
Diane Sawyer Dated
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    Where did Henry Kissinger go to school?
  • A:
    Henry Kissinger studied at Harvard University.
  • Q:
    What is a popular quote by Henry Kissinger?
  • A:
    Noteworthy quotations include: "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
  • Q:
    Which books have been composed by writer, Henry Kissinger?
  • A:
    Well known titles include:
    - The White House
    - Diplomacy
  • Q:
    Where was Henry Kissinger born?
  • A:
    Henry Kissinger was born in Fürth.
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