ABSTRACT
In 1938, a teen-aged Henry Kissinger fled Nazi Germany with his family and arrived in the United States. This Jewish refugee then proceeded to write his way to the top of his new country's political and social elite. However critical one may be about the policies he espoused while he was managing U.S. foreign affairs in the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, it cannot be denied that he is the living embodiment of the American dream, of advancement through merit and the ability to write one's way up into high office no matter how low one started.
