Inside The New York Times Book Review: Niall Ferguson’s ‘Kissinger’

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🗓️ 2 October 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Niall Ferguson discusses his biography of Henry Kissinger; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Sloane Crosley talks about “The Clasp”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Henry Kissinger is often referred to as the consummate realist, so why does a new
0:06.8	biography call him an idealist?
0:09.0	Neil Ferguson will be here to talk about his new book, Kissinger.
0:12.0	The notion of him as the arch-realist who had modelled himself on 19th century figures
0:17.0	like Metanich and Bismarck was way off.
0:20.1	How do you go from book publicists to best-selling assays to debut novelists?
0:24.0	Sloan Crossley will be here to talk about her first novel, The Clasp.
0:27.1	I knew that I wanted my book to be more than people sort of just sitting around whining
0:31.6	about their lives in Brooklyn.
0:32.6	I wanted them to get on a plane and get out of the house and go on a bit of a treasure hunt.
0:36.8	Alexander Altar will give us an update from the literary world and Greg Cole has best
0:41.3	cellar news.
0:42.3	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:44.0	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:49.0	Neil Ferguson is here now.
0:50.7	His most recent book is Kissinger, a long subtitle, 1923 to 1968, The Idealist.
0:57.7	Welcome, Neil.
0:58.7	Thanks for inviting me.
1:00.8	So this biography differs from the many previousographies of Kissinger in a couple of key ways.
1:07.8	The first being that not only is it an authorised biography, but as I understand it, Kissinger
1:12.1	asked you to write the book.
1:14.8	Authorised implies that he had some kind of editorial control which he didn't.
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