Disappointing listen. There are long stretches without anything relating to Nixon or Kissinger. Very repetitive on certain matters. There are frequent odd or incorrect pronunciations. So many that I thought it may be AI narration and I looked up the narrator. Turns out he is a real person but English may not be his first language. Overall an uneven listen, very interesting in parts but boring and repetitive in other parts. Often just an emotional appeal rather than serious work.

Fascinating read about a part of US foreign policy that too many Americans don’t know about.

This is a historical recap from an era of the US government and how fractured the competing agencies from the executive, State Department, intelligence agencies, the military and foreign diplomats are required to be silent within the corrupt administration of Richard Nixon. This is a record from the time Nixon was in office and the abuse of executive power and the brutal consequences when the truth is silenced. Sadly it is easy to correlate how often ‘this story is repeated throughout the history of the United States and in fact how it is now being repeated within the current administration of 2025.

In-depth account. I also find the conclusions and outlook lucid. There's only one drawback: the author waited until the middle part of the book to contextualize the Bangladesh crisis in US Asian policy, i.e. the Vietnam war.