White House Years

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White House Years is the first volume of Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, covering his tenure as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon administration.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
political memoir
author Henry Kissinger
countryOfOrigin United States
coversAdministration Presidency of Richard Nixon
coversPeriodEnd 1974
coversPeriodStart 1969
coversRole United States National Security Advisor
United States Secretary of State
depicts high-level U.S. foreign policy decision-making
followedBy Years of Renewal
Years of Upheaval
follows N/A (first volume of memoirs)
genre memoir
non-fiction
hasPart accounts of back-channel negotiations
analysis of détente with the Soviet Union
discussion of Vietnam War strategy
narrative of U.S.–China rapprochement
language English
mainProtagonist Henry Kissinger
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
notableEventCovered Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Vietnam peace negotiations
Yom Kippur War diplomacy
opening of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China
originalLanguage English
pageCount approximately 1500
portrays Anwar Sadat
Golda Meir
Leonid Brezhnev
Mao Zedong
Richard Nixon
Zhou Enlai
various U.S. and foreign officials
publicationDate 1979
publisher Little, Brown and Company
setting White House
subject Cold War diplomacy
Middle East diplomacy
Nixon administration
U.S.–China relations
U.S.–Soviet relations
United States foreign policy
Vietnam War
timeframeDescribed early 1970s


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