When a Japanese airliner plows into the Capitol building killing the President and most of the members of his Cabinet and Congress, Jack Ryan reluctantly assumes the role of Commander in Chief and must simultaneously calm the nation, conduct an investigation, reassemble the government, and face off with the country's enemies.

"Kissinger analyses the lives of six ... leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft, which he believes they embodied. After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls 'the strategy of humility.' Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by 'the strategy of will.' During the Cold War, Richard...