Henry Kissinger, who has died aged 100, enjoyed eight years, from 1969 until 1977, on the commanding heights of American foreign policy, and in that time achieved a réclame which a president of the United States might – and did – envy; yet, with the possible exception of Donald Trump (and for very different reasons), he remained the most polarising figure in US politics.
Considered the most powerful secretary of state in the post-World War II era, Kissinger was by turns hailed as an ultrarealist who reshaped diplomacy to reflect US interests and denounced as having abandoned American values, particularly in the arena of human rights, if he thought it served the nation’s purposes
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