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- Publication Year
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- Language
- English
- Book Title
- George F. Kennan : an American Life
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- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Modern / 20th Century, Historical
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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 US 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 half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan's death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep. We see Kennan's insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.
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Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1455155381
ISBN-13
9781455155385
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Book Title
George F. Kennan : an American Life
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, Historical
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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5.7in
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5.2in
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Unabridged Edition
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Magisterial...[Kennan] bids fair to be as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging, and exasperating American public servants...We can be grateful to John Lewis Gaddis for bringing Kennan back to us, thoughtful, human, self-centered, contradictory, inspirational--a permanent spur as consciences are wont to be. Masterfully researched, exhaustively documented, Gaddis' moving work gives us a figure with whom, however one might differ on details, it was a privilege to be a contemporary., [A] first-rate biography...Kennan's life maps right onto twentieth-century political history, and no one is better qualified than Gaddis to lead the way through it...Gaddis has written with care and elegance, and he has produced a biography whose fineness is worthy of its subject., No one is better suited than Gaddis to write this authorized biography of George F. Kennan...In addition to the intimacies of the work, Gaddis offers critical analyses of Kennan's key roles as diplomat, policy maker, and scholar of Russian history. Unsurpassed in his strategic vision during the cold war, Kennan is credited with being responsible for much of America's eventual victory, and therein lies the impetus behind this remarkable biography. Adroitly managed, Gaddis's work is a major contribution to Kennan's legacy and the history of American foreign policy., George Kennan was, in his accomplishments, a man touched with greatness, but in his character, a conflicted and flawed one. The recognition of this paradox by John Lewis Gaddis lends depth and pathos to this admirably judicious and illuminating biography., Mr. Gaddis has mastered the sources that came his way over the decades. The resulting biography is engaging and lucid.
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
327.730092 B
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Pages
24 Pages
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