George F. Kennan: An American Life
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 800
Cover Price: $ 39.95
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George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important
Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost 30 years ago; the result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
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Background Information
George Kennan was an American intellectual and diplomat, sometimes called the Father of Containment during the Cold War. The Cold War was the worldwide conflict between the western democracies and Communist states, particularly the USSR.
