Through the history of the Cold War
Subtitle: the Kennan-Lukacs correspondence
By: George Kennan and John Lukacs ; with an introduction by John Lukacs.
Contributors: Lukacs, John, 1924-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780812242539
Subjects: Kennan, George F. -- 1904-2005 -- Correspondence; Lukacs, John, -- 1924- -- Correspondence; Cold War -- Sources; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Sources; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Sources; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Sources
Genres: Correspondence; Sources
Description: " ... The letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan's thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political -and spiritual- philosophies that both authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Cold War begins: containment or liberation letters, 1952-1954; title: The Cold War at its peak : the Soviet Union redux letters, 1954-1964; title: How history should be written letters, 1964-1983; title: The evil empire and the end of the Cold War letters, 1983-1988; title: The end of an age: American hegemony letters, 1988-2004.