George F. Kennan: An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Gaddis, John Lewis - 2012

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New York: Penguin Books, 2012. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. Remainder mark. 2012 Hard Cover. xi, 784 pp. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and… Read More