Reprinted with permission from Jacobin Magazine. Excerpted from The Good Die Young, Jacobin and Verso Books's book-length anti-obituary for Henry Kissinger. It features contributions from Carolyn Eisenberg, Gerald Horne, Bancroft Prize-winner Greg Grandin, and others....
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