@webarticle {549316, title = {Book Review of Niall Ferguson{\textquoteright}s Kissinger. Volume I. 1923-1968: The Ideal\­ist}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2015}, abstract = {It is very rare for an official biography to be also a revisionist biography, but this one is. Usually it{\textquoteright}s the official life that the revisionists attempt to dissect and -refute, but such is the historical reputation of Henry Kissinger, and the avalanche of books and treatises already written about him, that Niall Ferguson{\textquoteright}s official biography is in part an effort to revise the revisionists. Though not without trenchant criticisms, {\textquotedblleft}Kissinger. Volume I. 1923-1968: The Ideal-ist{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} which takes its subject up to the age of 45, about to begin his first stint of full-time government service {\textemdash} constitutes the most comprehensive defense of Kissinger{\textquoteright}s outlooks and actions since his own three-volume, 3,900-page autobiography, published between 1979 and 1999.}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/niall-fergusons-kissinger-volume-i.html?_r=0}, author = {Ferguson, Niall and Roberts, Andrew} }