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“... Dallek’s Kissinger – jealous, sycophantic, duplicitous and striving – with the one in Jeremi Suri’s Henry Kissinger and the American Century. In Dallek, we see not a great negotiator but a naïf, manipulated by his more sophisticated Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese counterparts. Hanoi’s envoys to the Paris peace talks quickly detected ...”

“... globalisation. ‘At its core, détente was a mechanism for domestic fortification,’ writes Jeremi Suri, another unorthodox Cold War historian, with ‘a powerful domestic component that exceeded a mere agreement to avoid nuclear armageddon’. The tedious fire-screen recovered some of its utility as a defence against the ...”