Hersh,S. The Price of Power. 1983
Hersh, Seymour M. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.
New York: Summit Books, 1983. 698 pages.
Until this book came out, the only people who had critical words for
Henry Kissinger were the right, what was left of the left, and an occasional
author such as William Shawcross in 1979 (Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and
the Destruction of Cambodia). Hersh's work is the standard for mainstream
Kissinger criticism, against which all other efforts are measured. It
includes an entire hamper of laundry: his stranglehold on foreign policy,
the wiretaps on reporters, and his policies on Southeast Asia, China, and
SALT. Two of the best chapters are on the coup in Chile, which NameBase
indexed from their appearance in The Atlantic Monthly in December, 1982.
Hersh has over a dozen journalism prizes and numerous scoops to his
credit: the My Lai massacre (1969), the secret bombing of Cambodia (1973),
CIA domestic spying (1974), Edwin Wilson and Libya (1981), and Manuel
Noriega (1986). In 1972 he began working for the New York Times from
Washington. On rare occasions his byline still appears on their front page
or in their Sunday magazine, but these days he mostly free-lances.
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