Public Image, Private Interest

Henry Kissinger managed to convince even staunch conservatives that he was not orchestrating a foreign policy that would insure the eventual surrender of our national sovereignty in order to achieve world peace, but that he was realistic statesman who could realize our aims as a powerful nation.

Three decades after Professor Paolucci began to write his incisive polemics against Kissinger's strategies, revisionist critics have begun to reexamine Kissinger's policies, reviewing them against the realities that many writers and political analysts preferred to ignore at the time. According to Paolucci, Kissinger must be held accountable for the thousands of additional lives lost during that six-year delay.