Kissinger: A Biography

This book by Walter Isaacson has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss, Walter Isaacson. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-03-07 and the most recent from 2023-09-10. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

As his parents finished packing the few personal belongings they were permitted to take out of Germany, the bespectacled 15-year-old stood in the corner of the apartment memorizing the details of the scene. He was a bookish and reflective child, with that odd mixture of ego and insecurity that can come from growing up smart yet persecuted. "I'll be back someday," he said to the customs inspector who was surveying the boxes. Years later, he would recall how the official looked at him "with the disdain of age" and said nothing. Henry Kissinger was right: he did come back to his Bavarian birthplace, first as a soldier with the U.S.