The Tom Woods Show, episode 514.

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Welcome back for another episode of the show.

I am starting off your week in a very strange kind of way, on a bizarre note, if you're keeping

up with these episodes every single day, you are starting off this Monday morning thinking

about, of all people, Henry Kissinger, but very important for us to think about and know about

him because of the role he's played in U.S. foreign policy during the latter half of the

20th century. And joining us to talk about Henry Kissinger is Greg Grandin, who is author of a

brand new book, Kissinger's Shadow, The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman.

Greg Grandin is Professor of History at New York University.

He's been published widely. You can read him in the nation. The New York Times, Harper's, the London Review of Books.

Also, tomdispatch.com. I'm going to be linking on today's show notes page, Tomwas.com,

514, to an article that originally appeared there. It was then

picked up at the American Conservative.com on Kissinger's work in the Middle East and his

influence in the Middle East and how that continues to have an effect down to this very day.

Professor Grandin also holds a PhD from Yale University, and you can visit him at Greg

Grandin.com. We'll link to that as well at tomwoods.com slash 514. Greg, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Tom. I've been wanting to do an episode on Kissinger. I'm on episode 514 now, so I have covered a lot of the basics.

And I'd like to talk about Kissinger simply because in the community I travel in, he is viewed as an absolute monster.

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