Saturday, May 22, 2010

Kissinger dissertation

Came back from lunch to a question of finding Henry Kissinger's doctoral dissertation. Googling the term Kissinger Elena Kagan (I recalled some news item to that effect – which turned out to be a Daily Beast quiz Is Elena Kagan a Socialist and was about their senior theses) eventually led me to Henry Kissinger - Conservapedia. Therein I saw reference to his dissertation: "A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-22," a study praising how the conservative diplomats of the era built a stable and peaceful international system after the Napoleonic wars. 

The dissertation was published in 1957 by Houghton Mifflin [940.57 K].As the father, who had asked the question, said his son attends Yale, I went to Yale.edu, found a link to the library, entered the title, and got a record back:


A world restored; Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-22.


Author: Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
Title: A world restored; Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-22.
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
Description: 354 p. illus. 23 cm.





Location: SML, Stacks, Yale Classification
Call Number: Bi43 957K
Status: Not Checked Out


Subjects (Library of Congress): Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Fürst von, 1773-1859.

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822.

Europe --Politics and government --1815-1848.
Database: Yale University Library

The first link in searching on Google scholar was Kissinger: A Biography, by Walter Isaacson.

Wrote the kid an email, and closed the case (sorta).

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