George F. Kennan : an American life /
A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a George F. Kennan : |b an American life / |c John Lewis Gaddis. |
260 | |a New York : |b Penguin Press, |c 2011. | ||
300 | |a xi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [703]-749, [751]-762) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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650 | 0 | |a Cold War |x Diplomatic history. | |
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