Years of Renewal

The Concluding Volume of His Classic Memoirs

By: Henry Kissinger

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Paperback | 5 January 2012

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This third and final volume of memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history and a brilliantly told narrative full of startling insights, candour and a sweeping sense of history. It begins with the resignation of Nixon - including Kissinger's final assessment of Nixon's tortured personality and the self-inflicted tragedy that ended his presidency, making Kissinger, for a time, the most powerful man in American government. This book abounds in crisis - Vietnam, Watergate, the Cold War. Here are brilliant scenes, as only an insider could write them, of the high-level meetings that shaped American foreign policy, the famous 'shuttle' diplomacy by which Kissinger succeeded in bringing a reluctant and wary Rabin and anxious Sadat together to begin to return of the Sinai to Egypt and the SALT talks with the Soviet Union that began the process of nuclear limitation. Here also are intimate and profound portraits of world leaders from Mao, teasing Kissinger while displaying a poetic wisdom, to Brezhnev at the Vladivostock summit, confused, ill-prepared, unwell, desperately to conceal the Soviet Union's difficulties with a screen of blustering bravado.

Industry Reviews

Craig Eisendrath "The Philadelphia Inquirer" Kissinger's engagingly written chronicle of these years is rich in detail and insight, a "must read" for foreign policy mavens.
Richard Bernstein "The New York Times" Mr. Kissinger's history of his own time in office is a work whose breadth, clarity of vision and historical scope amply justify its size. It is an event, a likely classic of its genre.
Brian VanDeMark "The Boston Sunday Globe" Well-crafted...ambitious, all-embracing....It is a complex and human self-portrait drawn by a proud, intelligent, and reflective man.
John Lewis Gaddis "The New York Times Book Review" A remarkable achievement.
Josef Joffe "The Wall Street Journal" A style that simply outclasses the normal fare served up by former people of power....An engrossing book, truly hard to put down.

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