Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast:  Virginia, March 20, 2016/Nationally, March 23, 2016

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. In Kissinger, Ferguson draws not only on the former secretary of state's closed private papers but also on documents from more than one hundred archives around the world. Ferguson challenges increasingly negative portraits of Kissinger as a ruthless realist of the Vietnam era, involved in dubious international schemes. He argues that those depictions of the controversial Nixon-era figure are based on a profound misunderstanding of the man. Photo Credit: Dewald Aukema