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"In a series of riveting interviews, America's senior statesman discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension. As National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger transformed America's approach to diplomacy with China, the USSR, Vietnam, and the Middle East, laying the foundations for geopolitics as we know them today. Nearly fifty years later, escalating tensions between the US, China, and Russia...
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"In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the United States was coming apart. America had experienced a decade of tragic assassinations, followed by the unexpected resignation of first a Vice President and then a President of the United States. A new and dangerous cynicism swept the country--a mood that, in some ways, lingers today. Into that divide stepped an unexpected, unelected, and largely unknown American--Gerald R. Ford. Before taking office as...
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"Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad range of historical examples, from Yitzhak Rabin's efforts...
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Based on exclusive interviews with Henry Kissinger himself, this documentary provides unique insight into one of the 20th century's most powerful figures and his impact.
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"A revelatory examination of the Nobel Peace Prize -- the most prestigious, admired, and controversial honor of our time. The Nobel Prize, regardless of category, has always been surrounded by politics, intrigue, even scandal. But those pale in comparison to the Peace Prize. In Betraying the Nobel, Norwegian writer Unni Turrettini completely upends what we thought we knew about the Peace Prize -- both its history and how it is awarded. In the years...
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