How a US Secretary of State Helped Open China, Ended a War, and Reshaped Modern Geopolitics In the spring of 1971, a small jet touched down in Beijing under cover of darkness. No fanfare. No press. Only a few men in dark suits crossing onto Chinese soil for the first time in more than 20 years. One of them was a man whose name was at that moment foreign to most Americans, but whose shadow would soon loom over every major geopolitical stage of the century. His name was Henry Kissinger. It’s easy to see Kissinger as a Cold War relic, a general of the superpower chessboard who manipulated pieces without morality. But that would be too simple. He was, instead, a paradox. A European intellectual with the instincts of a poker player. A realist who dealt in idealism. A diplomat whose defining moves were, more often than not, made in secret. What do we get when the most powerful country on Earth allows its foreign policy to fall into the hands of a man who believes that diplomacy is best kept in the darkness? That is the question that reverberates throughout the story of Henry Kissinger. Grab a copy of this book now!
