Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world

'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain....

Nobelprijswinnaar Henry Kissinger analyseert de strategieën van wereldleiders uit de 20e eeuw

In zijn langverwachte nieuwe boek verdiept Henry Kissinger zich in de leiderschapsstijlen van zes invloedrijke wereldleiders uit de moderne geschiedenis: Charles de Gaulle, Konrad Adenauer, Margaret Thatcher, Richard Nixon, Lee Kuan Yew en Anwar Sadat. In een tijdperk waarin wereldwijd instituties en dynastieën omvielen, creëerden zij een nieuwe wereldorde. Daarbij analyseert hij zowel...

Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. Kissinger penetratingly analyses each of these leaders' careers through the highly individual strategies of statecraft which h...