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  Title

  George F. Kennan [electronic resource] : an American life

  Author

  Gaddis, John Lewis.  

  Publisher:

  Penguin Press,

  Pub date:

  2011.

  Pages:

  1 online resource (xi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates) :

  ISBN:

  9781101547373

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Online resources.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9781101547373
    
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  George F. Kennan [electronic resource] : an American life
  Gaddis, John Lewis.
  

  Personal Author:

  Gaddis, John Lewis.

  Title:

  George F. Kennan [electronic resource] : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.

  Publication info:

  New York : Penguin Press, 2011.

  Physical description:

  1 online resource (xi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.

  Contents:

  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 : 1947-1948 -- Policy dissenter : 1948 -- 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.

  Summary:

  A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

  Personal subject:

  Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005.

  Subject term:

  World politics--1945-1989.

  Subject term:

  Cold War--Diplomatic history.

  Subject term:

  Diplomats--United States--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

  Geographic term:

  United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

  Geographic term:

  Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.

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