The Ambassadors - Robert Cooper
The Ambassadors - Robert Cooper History does not run in straight lines. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Instead of inevitable progress,…
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The Ambassadors - Robert Cooper
History does not run in straight lines. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong.
Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe.The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves