Hawk and the Dove Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

Name: Hawk and the Dove Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780312658861

ISBN-10: 0312658869

ISBN-13: 9780312658861

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nicholas Thompson

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Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends.Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who believed the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one. George Kennan was a diplomat turned academic whose famous "X article" persuasively argued that we should contain the Soviet Union while waiting for it to collapse from within. A masterly double biography,The Hawk and the Dove"does an inspired job of telling the story of the Cold War through the careers of two of its most interesting…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Prologue



Now Is the Time to Live



Charming, Witty, and Urbane



A Strange Intensity, a Strange Beauty



Deceit, Corruption, Penetration, Subversion



Avoid Trivia



Architect of the Cold War



What We Are About



Confined to Korea



The Full Meridian of My Glory



A Fully Conventional Life



Deadly Serious Either Way



About 60/40



The Other Side of the Barricades



This Delegation Is a Disaster



You Constantly Betray Yourself



I Am Worried About Everything



We Tried, We Tried


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Index