''Interview with History'' (''Intervista con la storia'' in Italian) is a book consisting of interviews by the Italian journalist and author
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, ...
(1929–2006), one of the most controversial interviewers of her time. She interviewed many world leaders of the time.
Interviews with fourteen leaders appeared in this book and in the following order of presentation:
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...
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Ngyen Van Thieu
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General Giap
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Golda Meir
Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and ''kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1 ...
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Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...
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Hussein of Jordan
Hussein bin Talal ( ar, الحسين بن طلال, ''Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl''; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of ...
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Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...
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Ali Bhutto
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Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...
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Pietro Nenni
Pietro Sandro Nenni (; 9 February 1891 – 1 January 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and senator for life since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1951. He w ...
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Mohammed Riza Pahlavi
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Helder Camara
Helder may refer to:
* Den Helder or The Helder, a municipality and a city in the Netherlands
* Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799, or expedition to the "Helder"
People
* Anne-Marie Helder (21st century), British singer-songwriter
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Archbishop Makarios
Makarios III ( el, Μακάριος Γ΄; born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos) (Greek: Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) (13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Cypriot politician, archbishop and primate who served as ...
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Alexandros Panagoulis
Alexandros Panagoulis ( el, Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης; 2 July 1939 – 1 May 1976) was a Greek politician and poet. He took an active role in the fight against the Regime of the Colonels (1967–1974) in Greece. He became fa ...
Publishing history
*''Intervista con la storia'', Milan: Rizzoli, 1973; reprinted Milan: Rizzoli, 1974 (Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli).
*''Interview With History'', New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1976, translated from the Italian into English by John Shepley; first British edition: London: Michael Joseph, 1976; reprinted Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977, .
*Expanded and revised Italian edition: ''Intervista con la storia nuova edizione ampliata e riveduta'', Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1985.
External links
The Interview that Became Henry Kissinger’s “Most Disastrous Decision”: How Oriana Fallaci Became the Most Feared Political Interviewer in the World
References
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1976 books
Italian books
Works by Oriana Fallaci