‘Zbig’ Review: Kissinger’s Chief Rival

Since the creation of the position of White House national-security adviser, more than two dozen people have filled the position. The two men best known for the job, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, held it in the 1970s. Both seemed straight from Hollywood central casting. They were foreign-born, Harvard-trained academics with elaborate geostrategic theories. Both dominated the administrations in which they served, and both outshined the secretaries of state with whom they worked. Kissinger has been the subject of dozens of books, but Brzezinski, his great rival, has received markedly less biographical attention.