George F. Kennan
Subtitle: an American life
By: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 812
ISBN-13: 9781594203121
Subjects: World politics; Diplomats; Biography; Diplomatic history; Ambassadors; Cold War; Foreign relations
Description: A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [703]-749, [751]-762) and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood : 1904-1921; title: Princeton : 1921-1925; title: The Foreign Service : 1925-1931; title: Marriage; title: and Moscow : 1931-1933; title: The origins of Soviet-American relations : 1933-1936; title: Rediscovering America : 1936-1938; title: Czechoslovakia and Germany : 1938-1941; title: The United States at war : 1941-1944; title: Back in the U.S.S.R. : 1944-1945; title: A very long telegram : 1945-1946; title: A grand strategic education : 1946; title: Mr. X : 1947; title: Policy planner : 1947-1948; title: Policy dissenter : 1948; title: Reprieve : 1949; title: Disengagement : 1950; title: Public figure, private doubts : 1950-1951; title: Mr. Ambassador : 1952; title: Finding a niche : 1953-1955; title: A rare possibility of usefulness : 1955-1958; title: Kennedy and Yugoslavia : 1958-1963; title: Counter-cultural critic : 1963-1968; title: Prophet of the Apocalypse : 1968-1980; title: A precarious vindication : 1980-1990; title: Last things : 1991-2005.