KISSINGER ON THE COUCH

by Phyllis & Chester Ward Schlafly ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 30, 1974

This mammoth right-wing polemic rises to such heights of exquisite diatribe as ""Is Kissinger some kind of a nut or something?"" Yet it slips in enough genuine insight to make it intriguing. The ""couch"" angle is ramified with the obvious touchstones of Metternichian megalomania, but the authors chastely refrain from psychosexual investigations. As for the self-glorification, it seems to produce defeatism: ""Before Kissinger we had Cold War and hard currencies; after Kissinger we have the European heads of state falling, the end of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, the Soviets protecting the Arabs, and inflation in the West and none in the U.S.S.R. And have we forgotten Estonia, the Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Hungary. . . ?"" Then we pan to Chou En-lai reminding Henry about the Soviets' supposed first-strike impulses. Henry blocks it all out, and Chou thinks he's stupid. The book also includes estimates of the superpowers' nuclear capabilities which may well be militarily accurate; and it factually maps Kissinger's close Rockefeller connections and his powerful backers in the press (Max Lerner, C.L. Sulzberger, Joseph Kraft, et al.). Ward, a retired admiral, has been a Council on Foreign Relations member for the last sixteen years; though clearly disgruntled by the advent of computerized Schlesinger-Kissinger types and full of Russophobia, he is more knowledgeable than the ordinary mossback.

Pub Date: Jan. 30, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Arlington House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1974

Categories: NONFICTION