Clinton’s review of the book discusses large issues of U.S. foreign policy | AP Photos Clinton reviews Kissinger book

First Lady. Senator. Secretary of State. Possible 2016 contender. Book critic?

Hillary Clinton weighed in on Henry Kissinger’s latest book “World Order,” for the Washington Post, in a review published by the paper Thursday.


“Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses now and in the past, what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order,” Clinton writes.

However, Clinton’s review of the book, which she calls “vintage Kissinger,” discusses larger issues of U.S. foreign policy, including that of the Obama administration and her own experience at the State Department.

Clinton adds that Kissinger’s “long view” and analyses are “particularly valuable” to determining America’s role on the international stage and its diplomatic goals.

“For an international order to take hold and last, Kissinger argues, it must relate ‘power to legitimacy.’ To that end, Kissinger, the famous realist, sounds surprisingly idealistic,” Clinton writes. “Even when there are tensions between our values and other objectives, America, he reminds us, succeeds by standing up for our values, not shirking them, and leads by engaging peoples and societies, the sources of legitimacy, not governments alone.”

Clinton, whose memoir “Hard Choices” was released earlier this year, has also written the foreword for New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s forthcoming book “Off the Sidelines.”

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