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1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) |
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A lonely youth -- In the Foreign Service -- First officer on the bridge of the ship of state -- Washington to Princeton -- A conscience of a nation -- The historian -- Philosophy, religion; memory; old age -- Appendix: Two finest hours |
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A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, andlast but not leastof exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire; but then he became a scholar who wrote seventeen books, scores of essays and articles, and a Pulitzer Prizewinning memoir. He also wrote remarkable public lectures and many thousands of incisive letters, laying down his pen only in the hundredth year of his life. Having risen within the American Foreign Service and been posted to various European capitals, and twice to Moscow, Kennan was called back to Washington in 1946, where he helped to inspire the Truman Doctrine and draft the Marshall Plan. Among other things, he wrote the X or Containment article for which he became, and still is, world famous (an article which he regarded as not very important and liable to misreading). John Lukacs describes the development and the essence of Kennans thinking; theperhaps unavoidablemisinterpretations of his advocacies; his self-imposed task as a leading realist critic during the Cold War; and the importance of his work as a historian during the second half of his long life |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005
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Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005. fast (OCoLC)fst01427411 |
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Kennan, George Frost. swd |
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Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography
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Scholars -- United States -- Biography
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Historians -- United States -- Biography
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Character -- Case studies
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Cold War.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Ambassadors.
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Character.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Historians.
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Scholars.
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Außenpolitik
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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United States of America.
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International relations.
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Cold war.
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Ambassadors.
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Political science.
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Biographies, memoirs and correspondance.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
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United States.
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USA
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collective biographies.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Études de cas.
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Electronic book
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9780300180954 |
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0300180950 |
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