How long does it take to read Diplomacy?
Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger takes about 16 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 43 minutes
A long haul
First published 1994. 912 pages, about 250,800 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this controversial and monumental book - arguably his most important - Henry Kissinger illuminates just what diplomacy is. Moving from a sweeping overview of his own interpretation of history to personal accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Kissinger describes the ways in which the art of diplomacy and the balance of power have created the world we live in, and shows how Americans, protected by the size and isolation of their country, as well as by their own idealism and mistrust of the Old World, have sought to conduct a unique kind of foreign policy based on the way they wanted the world to be, as opposed to the way it really is.
Subjects: Diplomacy, Foreign relations administration, Diplomatieke betrekkingen, Relations extérieures, Diplomatie, Administration
