George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.
Gaddis, John Lewis.
2011
E748.K374 G34 2011 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title
George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.
Author
Gaddis, John Lewis.
ISBN
9781594203121
1594203121
Publication Details
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
All Resources
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.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export