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"I attach much more importance to books that I’ve written based on unpublished material. Published is essentially filtered. A huge filter has determined what sees the light of day in print."
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"When you enter an archive, the only filter is that nobody destroyed it and somebody thought to preserve it. This is a radically different world that you enter. It’s not a perfect representation of reality, but it’s a lot closer to reality than the published material."
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"I like to dig deeply and enter that realm of the unpublished. I’m insatiable as I enter it."
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"I’m reconstructing Kissinger’s life almost on an hour-by-hour basis to try to see a new way of thinking about the 1970s, which was a pivotal decade in a great many ways. To rethink that decade is my current mission."
