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George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis. |
| Authors: | Gaddis, John Lewis. |
| Call number: | B Kennan, G.F. GAD |
| Publisher: | New York : Penguin Press, 2011. |
| Publication date: | 2011. |
| Subject: |
World politics -- 1945-1989.
Cold War -- Diplomatic history. Diplomats -- United States -- Biography. Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States. Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005. |
| Title: | George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis. |
| Physical description: | xi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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 note: | A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594203121 1594203121 |
| LCCN: | 2011021786 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1321787 |
| Bib No.: | 1321787 |
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