Tim Walker of '' The Austin Chronicle '' lauded Hitchens as " a brilliant polemicist and a tireless reporter . Both sets of skills are on display throughout this book as he presents damning documentary evidence against Kissinger in case after case . " Vietnam War whistleblower Fred Branfman argued that " only a nation in deep spiritual and psychological disarray could honor a man with as much blood on his hands as Henry Kissinger " and wrote that " Hitchens 's book deserves much wider attention . " Keith Phipps of '' The A.V. Club '' praised the text as a " persuasive , damning account of Kissinger 's activities as an international power-broker " , and said that " by the time the author — using the same careful , if one-sided , reporting — implicates Kissinger in the planned assassination of a dissident Greek journalist , it seems well within the bounds of plausibility . " In the '' Los Angeles Times '' , Warren I. Cohen said Hitchens " does a lawyerly job of demonstrating Kissinger 's involvement " in the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende and " also spells out the American role in the Greek junta 's attempt in 1974 to assassinate Archbishop Makarios , president of Cyprus , and catches Kissinger and Ford acquiescing in the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 . " A month after Hitchens ' death , John R. MacArthur of '' Harper 's Magazine '' , while criticizing Hitchens 's interventionism after the September 11 attacks , referred to '' The Trial of Henry Kissinger '' as a " landmark book "
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger