In the nearly fifty years after he left public office, Henry Kissinger remained one of the most admired, and controversial, figures in American public life. Drawing on previously unseen private correspondence and interviews with the journalists and editors he courted and battled, historian Barbara J. Keys’s Super K exposes the machinery Kissinger built to defend his reputation, including his fierce battles with television networks and major publishers over his record in Cambodia and Chile.
Super K
“A sensational investigation” and “a morbidly fascinating look at the fragile ego and control freakery that defined a whole era of political commentary.”
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Praise for Super K
“Super K is downright hilarious. Who would have thought a biography of Henry Kissinger could be so laugh-out-loud revealing about the great pontificator?”
Kai Bird
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center
“In all of US history, no one worked harder to shape and safeguard his reputation than Henry Kissinger. … It is both a revealing portrait of a man obsessed with how he would be remembered and an indictment of a corrupt and incestuous elite.”
Stephen Walt
Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School