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Kennan - A Life between Worlds (Hardcover)
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Kennan - A Life between Worlds (Hardcover)
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A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning
historian George F. Kennan The diplomat and historian George F.
Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in
American foreign policy-and one of its most complex. Drawing on
many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's authoritative
biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability
and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped
ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to
extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that
the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with
Russia. Even as Kennan championed rational realism in foreign
policy, his personal and professional lives were marked by turmoil.
And though he was widely respected and honored by presidents and
the public, he judged his career a failure because he had been
dropped as a pilot of U.S. foreign policy. Impossible to classify,
Kennan was a sui generis thinker, a trenchant critic of both
communism and capitalism, and a pioneering environmentalist. Living
between Russia and the United States, he witnessed firsthand
Stalin's tightening grip on the Soviet Union, the collapse of
Europe during World War II, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold
War. An absorbing portrait of an eloquent, insightful, and
sometimes blinkered iconoclast whose ideas are still powerfully
relevant, Kennan invites us to imagine a world that Kennan fought
for but was unable to bring about-one not of confrontations and
crises but of dialogue and diplomacy.
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