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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904{u2013}2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy{u2014}and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola{u2019}s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish...
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.
In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram"
...Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1945 the United States saw the Soviet Union as its principal ally. By 1947, it saw the Soviet Union as its principal opponent. How did this happen? Historian John Lukacs has provided an answer to this question through an exchange of letters with George F. Kennan. Their correspondence deals with the antecedents of containment between 1944 and 1946, during most of which time Kennan was at the American embassy in Moscow. Kennan had strong opinions...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The annotated diaries of the late influential American diplomat and foreign policy strategist spans ninety years of U.S. history while sharing his insights into Depression-era capitalism, the Cold War, and his literary achievements." --
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era-written by the grandson of one of them
Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning-and surviving-that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
When George C. Marshall, the organizer of victory as Army Chief of Staff during World War II, became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his arrival Marshall asked George F. Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure--the Policy Planning Staff. In this...