By the time Henry Kissinger became secretary ofstate in 1973, he was the most admired person in America. Yet he was alsoreviled by many. Kissinger exploresthe relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policyhe pursued. Drawing on interviews with Kissinger and 150 other sources, thisbiography makes use of many of the man's private papers to tell his uniquelyAmerican story. The result is an intimate narrative that follows this grandlycolorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as aglobe-trotting business consultant.