Drawing on his diplomatic experience and expertise,
George F. Kennan offers an informed, plain-spoken appraisal of United States foreign policy. His evaluations of diplomatic history and international relations cut to the heart of policy issues much debated today. This expanded edition retains the lectures and essays first published in 1951 as
American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 and adds two lectures delivered in 1984 as well as a new preface by the author. In these additional pieces, Kennan explains how some of his ideas have changed over the years. He confronts the events and topics that have come to occupy American opinion in the last thirty years, including the development and significance of the
Cold War, the escalation of the nuclear
arms race, and the American involvement in Vietnam. "A book about foreign policy by a man who really knows something about foreign policy." James Reston,New York Times Book Review
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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.
