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Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University. He is the author of The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War.

From the London Review dated 29 November 2007

Sucking up to P

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek Buy this book
Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri Buy this book

Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik, with its moral relativism and easy acceptance of American limits, is often contrasted with the neocon evangelism that took off after the attacks of 9/11. Kissinger had long served as a foil for the New Right. The secretary of state ‘sounds like Churchill’ but ‘acts like Chamberlain’, Norman Podhoretz wrote in 1976. And even before conservatives came to condemn Kissinger for his dealings with China and Moscow, they distrusted his associates, particularly Nelson Rockefeller. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006)
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (2004)
The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (2001)

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Sucking up to P · 29 November 2007

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek Buy this book
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