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George Kennan - A Study of Character (Paperback)
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George Kennan - A Study of Character (Paperback)
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A profoundly moving biographical study of George Kennan by the fine
historian John Lukacs A man of impressive mental powers, of
extraordinary intellectual range, and-last but not least-of
exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an
adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive
role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a
few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire;
but then he became a scholar who wrote seventeen books, scores of
essays and articles, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir. He also
wrote remarkable public lectures and many thousands of incisive
letters, laying down his pen only in the hundredth year of his
life. Having risen within the American Foreign Service and been
posted to various European capitals, and twice to Moscow, Kennan
was called back to Washington in 1946, where he helped to inspire
the Truman Doctrine and draft the Marshall Plan. Among other
things, he wrote the "X" or "Containment" article for which he
became, and still is, world famous (an article which he regarded as
not very important and liable to misreading). John Lukacs describes
the development and the essence of Kennan's thinking; the-perhaps
unavoidable-misinterpretations of his advocacies; his self-imposed
task as a leading realist critic during the Cold War; and the
importance of his work as a historian during the second half of his
long life.
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