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  1. The Meaning of History: Dr. Henry Kissinger's Undergraduate Thesis

    In March 2022, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) distributed the first print edition of Dr. Henry A. Kissinger's renowned undergraduate thesis, The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant, completed at Harvard College in 1950, to the world's leading research

  2. Henry A Kissinger The Meaning Of History Reflections On Spengler

    Henry A Kissinger The Meaning Of History Reflections On Spengler, Toynbee, And Kant Bookreader Item Preview ... Kissinger, Harvard, Thesis, Spengler, Toynbee, Kant Collection opensource Language English. Undergraduate or graduate thesis from Henry Kissinger Addeddate 2019-05-04 18:50:52

  3. Harvard faculty examine legacy of the late Henry Kissinger

    Harvard faculty examine legacy of Henry Kissinger. A 1959 portrait of Harvard faculty Henry Kissinger. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose Harvard education informed 70 years as a diplomat, adviser to presidents, and public intellectual, died Wednesday at age 100. Born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in 1923 in Bavaria, he and his ...

  4. PDF Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

    While National Security Advisor, Kissinger was also sworn in as the 56th Secretary of State on September 22, 1973.4 After the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation, Kissinger continued to serve as Secretary of State under President Gerald Ford until January 20, 1977. In this role, he flew 565,000 miles, once visiting 17 countries in 18 ...

  5. The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spenler, Toynby and Kant

    The Meaning of History is the senior thesis written by Henry Kissinger at Harvard university in 1950, when he was twenty-seven. More than 70 years later it is now being published for the first time. The thesis explores the thought of three distinct but important thinkers in the canon of Western philosophical and historical thought, in a way that also reflected Kissinger's own transition from ...

  6. A World Restored

    A World Restored. A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-1822 is a book by scholar and future United States Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. [1] Published in 1957, it was written in 1954 as Kissinger's doctoral dissertation at Harvard University .

  7. Kissinger looks back

    "A fellow student once called Henry Kissinger's work here 'a conversation with himself on some of humanity's deepest questions,'" Faust told the crowd. "Harvard was fortunate to have been a formative part of that conversation, and we are very fortunate to continue that conversation today." ... His senior thesis, which tackled ...

  8. Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

    Abstract Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this paper describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union, symbolized by the signing of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ("SALT I"), and the mediation of the ...

  9. History and Henry Kissinger

    Kissinger's undergraduate thesis, though sometimes idiosyncratic in interpretation and daunting in length (Harvard was thereafter moved to pass new rules on the number of pages a student could write), typified the widespread search for new sources of values in the post-Holocaust world of the 1940s and 1950s.

  10. Henry Kissinger and the American Century

    Suri has provided a brilliant and balanced portrait of Henry Kissinger. Shaped by his childhood in Germany, his adolescence in New York, and his wartime experiences in the army, Kissinger was forever the outsider, indelibly influenced by his Jewishness, even as he became the consummate insider. Suri incisively analyzes the qualities that made ...

  11. The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant

    This volume presents Henry Kissinger's (born 1923) senior thesis from Harvard University, written in 1950 when he was 27 years old and published here in full for the first time over 70 years later. The text explores the thought of three distinct but important thinkers in the canon of Western philosophical and historical thought: Oswald Spengler ...

  12. The Kissinger Years

    In his Harvard College senior thesis, The Meaning of History, Kissinger observed: "Everybody is a product of an age, a nation, and environment. But beyond that, he constitutes what is essen- ... House Years in the continuing study of Henry Kissinger and the Nixon-Kissinger era of American foreign policy. 2. A short list of relevant research and ...

  13. History and Henry Kissinger

    Kissinger, suggesting a higher standard, writes of "statesmen." From musings on the meaning of history comes his definition of statesmanship. Kissinger's undergraduate thesis, though sometimes idiosyncratic in interpretation and daunting in length (Harvard was thereafter moved to pass new rules on the number of pages a student could write ...

  14. PDF Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War

    Nixon and Kissinger. Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968 in the widespread expectation that he would end the deeply unpopular war in which almost 550,000 Americans were serving and 35,000 had already died.27. On December 20, 1968, the United States expressed readiness to seek a settlement.28 The North Vietnamese responded with an ...

  15. Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.

    Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany. Fleeing the rise of the Nazis, the Kissinger family came to the United States in 1938. He became a United States citizen in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. From 1954 until 1969, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University.

  16. The Salad Days of Henry Kissinger

    With these words, a Harvard thesis-writer named Henry Kissinger introduced Clemens Metternich, Austria's greatest foreign minister. Metternich was a man whom Kissinger emulated, whose diplomatic ...

  17. Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

    Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this case describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union, symbolized by the signing of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ("SALT I"), and the mediation of the agreement on Sinai ...

  18. Henry Kissinger's ties to Harvard date back to the 1940s when ...

    Kissinger entered Harvard in 1947 and graduated summa cum laude three years later. His 383-page thesis, "The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant," gave rise to what ...

  19. Henry Kissinger

    Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.. Born in Germany, Kissinger emigrated to the United States in 1938 as a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi ...

  20. Kissinger Remembers

    Kissinger Remembers. 01.Feb.1980 . 19 min read. Michael Smith. Originally published in the HIR February 1980 Issue. In White House Years, asserts Henry Kissinger, "I have attempted to write a book which will stand historical scrutiny." The meaning and the making of history have fascinated Kissinger since his days as a Harvard undergraduate; and ...

  21. Kissinger returns to Harvard

    Henry A. Kissinger, who served as National Security adviser and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations after 15 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, will be the featured speaker on a panel discussion in Sanders Theatre on April 11.. Kissinger '50, A.M. '52, Ph.D. '54, was the nation's 56th secretary of state from September 1973 until January 1977.

  22. TIL The origin of the current word limit (35,000 words) for an ...

    TIL The origin of the current word limit (35,000 words) for an undergraduate senior thesis at Harvard owes itself to Henry Kissinger's original thesis, which was over 400 pages long. en.wikipedia.org Open. Share Add a Comment. Sort by: Best. Open comment sort options ... Thesis are almost always printed double-spaced, so 1/2 that.

  23. Henry Kissinger on a potential artificial intelligence arms race

    Kissinger laid the groundwork for an uneasy peace between Egypt and Israel that has lasted now for almost 50 years. By 1974, Kissinger, the brilliant, all-but-anonymous Harvard academic, was hot ...