When Niall Ferguson published the first volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger last year, much was made of his portrayal of the former national security adviser and secretary of state as not being a foreign policy “realist” before joining the Nixon administration in 1968. To the contrary, as its title indicates, Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist argued that the soon-to-be Nixon national security adviser was more attuned to the liberal internationalist, Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party than not.There are reasons to question this portrait, chief among them being Ferguson’s overly strict definition of what it means to be a …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research