George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.
Gaddis, John Lewis.
2011
E748.K374 G34 2011 (Mapit)
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Title George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.
Author Gaddis, John Lewis.
ISBN 9781594203121
1594203121
Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number E748.K374 G34 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.730092 B
Summary A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, 2012.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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