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What the reader should also know and what Times editors should have considered before making this assignment is that Kissinger's disclosure is roughly the equivalent of George W. Bush's informing the public that he and Tony Blair have had "a full and frank exchange of views about matters of mutual concern."

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Gaddis seems to have anticipated Kissinger's mild disfavor years ago in a sometimes-arch appreciation of Kissinger's Years of Renewal that he wrote also for the New York Times in 1999.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

One of the students was outraged by Christopher Hitchens's book accusing Henry of war crimes, so I said, 'Why not do a senior essay on Kissinger's ethics?'

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Kissinger's review offers useful insights and information about Kennan--Kissinger's own insights, more than Gaddis's.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

But on Inauguration Day itself, he was in New Haven hosting one of Kissinger's visits to the Grand Strategy seminar, which watched Bush's address on television and solicited his comments.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Unlike hostess Georgette Mosbacher, who threw a book party for Bratton last December and invited Kelly and Rudy Giuliani, Bratton asks Kissinger if he can parse Kissinger's guest list before the invitations go out.

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While that cannot fairly be said of what, by all accounts so far, is an impressive biography of Kennan, it should have been said much more clearly about the orchestration of Kissinger's diplomatic tribute to it.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

That's clear now, too, in Kissinger's review, which reminds us that "Kennan served a country that had not yet learned the distinction between the abrupt, military conversion and the evolution of an adversary--if indeed it ever will."

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

By now more than two hundred Grand Strategy graduates who've sat at Kissinger's feet are out in the world, more than a few of them in Washington.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Kissinger's annual reports as national security adviser under Nixon, together with his speeches as Secretary of State under Nixon and Ford, set out his objectives with extraordinary candor and clarity.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011