Kissinger is the story of the brilliant powerbroker who rose to the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Revered or reviled, Henry Kissinger’s contradictions reflect those at the heart of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century.
Kissinger es la historia del brillante personaje, poderoso e influyente, que ascendió a las más altas esferas de la diplomacia estadounidense. Venerado o denostado, las contradicciones de Henry Kissinger reflejan las que se encontraban en el centro de la política exterior estadounidense en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.
Intent on disrupting North Vietnamese supply lines, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon authorized the secret bombing and invasion of neighboring Cambodia in 1969. The campaign set off a series of events that destabilized the nation—and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge's rise to power.
An unlikely celebrity who drew fire from across the political spectrum, Henry Kissinger is widely recognized as one of the great American statesmen of the twentieth century.
