George Kennan A Study of Character

Name: George Kennan A Study of Character
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ISBN: 9780300143065

ISBN-10: 0300143060

ISBN-13: 9780300143065

Edition: 2009

Authors: John Lukacs

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A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and-last but not least-of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire; but then he became a scholar who wrote seventeen books, scores of essays and articles, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir. He also wrote remarkable public lectures and many thousands of incisive letters, laying down his pen only in the hundredth year of his life. Having risen within the American Foreign Service and been posted to various…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.85" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

John Lukacs is the author of more than twenty books on history.