European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews diplomacy by Henry kiss Irriger Simon amp schuster. A with Henry Kissinger a diplomacy the Reader actually gets two books in one. On one level the volume is an elegantly written study of Western diplomacy from Richelieu Down through Mett Emich and Bismarck to modern times. Of. It tic this Book tries to give the Reader an understanding of four centuries of Western politics and history As Well As an appreciation of the highly divergent traditions in statesmanship found in Europe and the. United states. Like Henry James Kissinger contrasts european cold blooded Ness and sophistication with american innocence and naivete like Tocqueville he wants to examine the consequences that american optimism and democratic ideals have had on the country a practical conduct the second Book the Book that emerges As a subtext in diplomacy is a More subjective and cunning one. This Book attempts to place Kissinger a own policymaking exploits As National Security adviser and Secretary of state under president Nixon in context with the policymaking records of such historical giants As Metternich Castlereagh and Bismarck. While making an impassioned Case for such kiss ingerian concepts As triangular diplomacy linkage and balance of Power negotiations the Book also tries to spin history to support Kissinger a own embrace As both a scholar and a policy maker of the Power oriented pragmatics of realpolitik. For instance the failure of the Western Democrat ties it recognize the dangers of nazi Germany Early on Kissinger suggests can be attributed to those countries failure to pay attention to traditional balance of Power tenets which a should have made it Clear that a Large and Strong Germany bordered on the East by Small and weak states was a dangerous threat a regardless of hitlers motives. Suck arguments serve another purpose in this Book As Well they provide a resonant historical backdrop for Kissinger a efforts to explain and vindicate his own handling of foreign affairs for Nixon. After All As Kissinger Well knows books have the capacity to help shape ones place in history or at least affect How ones efforts Are perceived his second Book nuclear weapons and foreign policy 1957made him an intellectual celebrity at the age of 34, while his later books including his Best Selling memoirs helped Cement his Fame. _ in this respect diplomacy can be seen As a kind of response to the publication of recent books from Seymour Hershy a angry diatribe the Price of Power to Walter Isaacson a comprehensive biography Kissinger that have provided less than flattering por. Traits of the former Secretary of state indeed the last portion of diplomacy rehashes events dealt with at length in Kissinger a two volumes of memoirs White House years 1979 and years of upheaval 1982including the end of the Vietnam  detente with the soviet Union and the opening to China. Although Kissinger does not directly address the charges of secretive Ness made against him and Nixon he argues in a passage about Franklin Roosevelt that a there is inevitably in every great Leader an element of guile which simplifies sometimes the objectives sometimes the magnitude the  elsewhere he suggests that Only hands on ministers a with executive Powers Over All aspects of foreign affairs Quot can Rise to the level of greatness. Many arguments in diplomacy Are familiar. Once again Kissinger complains that watergate under mined the authority of the president and his Lon term foreign policy objectives. He  As a the Best of the available  and lie angrily rebuts critics like William Shaw Cross who have charged that his policies set the stage in Cambodia for the Khmer Rouge atrocities. What Overall lesson does Kissinger draw from the Vietnam  a the Nightmare of Viet Narn was not the Way in which America entered the  a he writes a but Why it did so without a More careful As a ses sment of the Likely costs and potential outcomes. A a nation should not Send half a million of its Young to a Distant continent or stake its International bestsellers North Vietnam sle due Tho and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger after conferring on tightening the Paris peace agreement in june 1973. Standing and Domestic cohesion unless its leaders can describe their political goals and  realistic strategy for achieving them a As president George. Bush did later in the Gulf . Washington should have asked itself two Basic questions was it possible to establish democracy and achieve military Victory More or less simultaneously and even More crucial will the benefits justify the costs a a new York times James Baldwin a biography by David Leeming Alfred a. Knopf Leeming a biography Loving but honest shows us step by step How Baldwi Jound his Way through life. He was intellectually precocious spiritually ambitious sexually ambidextrous and emotionally voracious. \ Baldwin who died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 63, found his role As Prophet critic and would be re a Deemer. He played it dazzlingly in a series of books and essays notes of a native son nobody knows my name the fire next time no name in the Street that Are key texts to understanding America in the 1950s, �?T60s and �?T70s. Margo Jefferson . Times the unquiet ghost russians remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Viking Why a a Why arc you doing this a Adam Hochschild heard this question often in the course of his 1991 search for surviving victims and executioners of the mass terror orchestrated in the  in the 1930s by Stalin. Why russians wanted to know would an american journalist armed Only with a knowledge of their language and a tape recorder assign himself this Story Why now 60 years after Stalin set up the killing machine that would destroy 20 million of his countrymen now when Only a handful of witnesses survive and when new threats loom Western readers May Echo these questions. Why should we be led once again through the cemeteries of the russian revolution has t Robert Conquest _ shown us the great purges Alexander Solzhenitsyn the gulag archipelago Nadezhda mandelstam the plight of the intellectual under Lenin and Stalin 7eugenia Ginzburg the Day to Day strategies of survival in Camp what is left in the �?T90s for an american writer an outsider to see and to report the answer is to be found in the absorbing pages of the unquiet ghost in 4he narrow window of time. Available to the stalinist reign of terror. From previous visits the author knew that for at least three decades after the death of Stalin in 1953, silence had prevailed throughout the . Few survivors spoke to foreigners. Secret police files were sealed. Only with the first intimations of a a glasnost in the mid sos did signs appear of a yearning to break the silence to unburden the collective past to stake the ghosts. Olga Andreyev Carlisle . 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