The Price of Power

Seymour Hersh · first published 1983 · ISBN 9780671447601

Henry Kissinger shaped American foreign policy during Nixon's first term. Hersh examines what that meant: the secret bombing of Cambodia that killed tens of thousands, the tilt toward Pakistan during the genocide in Bangladesh, the intervention in Chile that toppled a democratically elected government. Drawing from declassified documents and off-the-record interviews, Hersh shows how one man's realpolitik cost other nations dearly.