| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. By Robert Dallek. (New York: HarperCollins, 2007. xii, 740 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-06-0722302.)
Armed with revealing new archival material, particularly Henry Kissinger's phone transcripts, Robert Dallek fills in important details about the bizarre relationship between Kissinger and Richard M. Nixon and how it dramatically affected U.S. foreign policy. The author, a distinguished presidential historian who has previously written about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon B. Johnson, and John F. Kennedy, is astonished that two such wildly dysfunctional individuals wielded so much power.	1
Paranoid, insecure, deceitful, mean, and vindictive, both Nixon and Kissinger subconsciously used politics as "a form of vocational therapy" (p. 34). When necessary, Kissinger excelled as the fawning courtier, a "paid hand," Nixon called him to his face; out of the Oval Office he was a schemer with "an inflated ego," leaking classified information to his friends in the press and demeaning the president (p. 455, 50). And, since his people were tapping the national security advisor's phones, Nixon knew it.	. . .

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