ABSTRACT
In his memoirs, Henry Kissinger describes many personal meetings from his years as National Security Adviser (1969-1973) and Secretary of State (1973-1977) during which he helped form the politics of the U.S. as superpower and thus world politics. Helmut Schmidt surfaces here, as do Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Edward Heath, Andrei Gromyko, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai: individuals who, like Mettemich or Bismarck or Palmerston before them, made history.
