George F. Kennan An American Life

Name: George F. Kennan An American Life
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ISBN: 9781594203121

ISBN-10: 1594203121

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Edition: 2011

Authors: John Lewis Gaddis

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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" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/10/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 800
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale University.



Preface






Childhood: 1904-1921



Princeton: 1921-1925



The Foreign Service: 1925-1931



Marriage-and Moscow: 1931-1933






The Origins of Soviet-American Relations: 1933-1936



Rediscovering America: 1936-1938



Czechoslovakia and Germany: 1938-1941



The United States at War: 1941-1944



Back in the U.S.S.R.: 1944-1945



A Very Long Telegram: 1945-1946






A Grand Strategic Education: 1946



Mr. X: 1947



Policy Planner: 1947-194 8



Policy Dissenter: 194 8



Reprieve: 1949



Disengagement: 1950






Public Figure, Private Doubts: 1950-1951



Mr. Ambassador: 1952



Finding a Niche: 1953-1955



A Rare Possibility of Usefulness: 1955-1958



Kennedy and Yugoslavia: 1958-1963






Counter-Cultural Critic: 1963 - 1968



Prophet of the Apocalypse: 1968-1980



A Precarious Vindication: 1980-1990



Last Things: 1991-2005


Epilogue: Greatness


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations to Notes and Bibliography


Notes


Bibliography


Index