THE KISSINGER TRANSCRIPTS

This ambitious audiobook is an attempt to represent some of the conversations that Henry Kissinger had with American, Russian and Chinese foreign policy officials during the late 1960's and early 1970's. These conversations had been classified and concealed until they were wrestled free by Burr, who has selected the most significant parts of thousands of pages of memoranda of conversations. The troupe of actors does a good job with difficult material. The reading is clear and dramatic, and foreign names are never mispronounced. Theodore Bikel's performance as Kissinger is quite convincing; one thinks that Kissinger himself is on the audiobook. M.L.C. © AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/JAN 00]