The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations
"Under one cover, Tom Wells has assembled perhaps the most unique, candid, and revealing collection of formerly secret conversations ever to be declassified. The Kissinger Tapes provides an incomparable compilation of Henry Kissinger in his own words—and a verdict of history on his controversial foreign policies."
—Peter Kornbluh, author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
"From the fog of history Tom Wells offers a gift that keeps giving by masterfully assembling a trove of Kissinger's previously secret conversations across virtually every area of his engagement during the Nixon presidency. The book adds much to understanding the personalities, politics and policies of the era plus illuminates the nuances of Kissinger's pettiness, deceit and self-adulation. Wells has given us a real historical gem."
—Larry Berman, professor emeritus, University of California, Davis, and author of No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam
"Tom Wells' The Kissinger Tapes is a fascinating look at the political class's self-surveillance, and of the consuming distrust and paranoia that comes from waging illegal wars and coups across multiple continents. Now, if we only had a recording of Kissinger's psyche…"
—Greg Grandin, C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
"The Kissinger Tapes is an essential document for anyone wishing to understand how power works in the world. Wells ably guides the reader through the air-conditioned jungle of the Nixon White House."
—Tim Weiner, author of The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century and One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.