"One of the telling aspects of the Nixon-Kissinger partnership that Dallek highlights over and over again is how both men, so seemingly unaware of their unexamined personal contradictions, were so attuned to and vigilant concerning the difficulties presented by the other's problematic character. Both men seem to have worried continually that the other, while brilliant, was a treacherous and unstable nut."
Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times reviews Robert Dallek's Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power.
And Vanity Fair offers an excerpt.
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