The celebrated historian,back in the public eye with a biography of Henry Kissinger, will answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm on Monday 12 October – post them in the comments below 9.48am BSTHenry Kissinger remains one of the most divisive figures in contemporary American history, and seen by some as a brilliant pragmatist,others as a brutal and blinkered operator and is is the latest focus for the historian Niall Ferguson. He has just written the first in a two-piece biography of the former US secretary of state to Presidents Nixon and Ford, weighing in at nearly 1000 pages, and drawn from more than 100 archives of material as well as Kissinger’s private papers.
It’s the latest doorstop from the Scot,who has caught and often rattled – the current imagination with the vivid counterfactuals of Virtual History, his studies of British and American imperialism, or The Ascent of Money,his survey of global finance which was turned into a Channel 4 series, and who advised Michael Gove on reordering the UK’s school history curriculum. He has taught at Harvard for over a decade, and just announced a move to Stanford.
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Source: theguardian.com