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Book Review
| Henry Kissinger e l'ascesa dei neoconservatori: Alle origini della politica estera americana (Henry Kissinger and the rise of the neoconservatives: On the origins of American foreign policy). By Mario Del Pero. (Rome–Bari: Laterza, 2006. 197 pp. Paper, €18.00, ISBN 88-420-8009-8.) In Italian.
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| Villified from both the right and left as, respectively, soft on Communism or a coddler of right-wing dictators, Henry Kissinger remains a widely sought-after elder statesman and consultant. All of the controversy has naturally made him the subject of a plethora of biographical and analytical studies. |
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Into this vortex the Italian historian Mario Del Pero, of the Forlì branch of the University of Bologna, offers a short work of admirable clarity and objectivity. A specialist in the history of American foreign policy, Del Pero has researched American archives and held visiting academic positions in the United States. He has written on the Central Intelligence Agency (cia) and on American intervention in Italian politics, with articles in English in the Journal of American History and elsewhere. |
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