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George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

By: George Frost Kennan,John Lukacs

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George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

By: George Frost Kennan,John Lukacs

These letters show Kennan's fear of the extent to which the United States misunderstood the Soviet regime. Especially in 1944, at the time of the Russians' betrayal of the Warsaw Uprising, it became evident that the Soviets were interested in establishing their rigid domination of Eastern and Central Europe and dividing the continent.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211097

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9780826211095

Sketches from a Life

By: George Frost Kennan

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Sketches from a Life

By: George Frost Kennan

George Kennan's private diaries provide a portrait of his life and times and the key cities and countries he served in as ambassador.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393321398

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9780393321395

Memoirs, 1950-1963

By: George Frost Kennan

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Memoirs, 1950-1963

By: George Frost Kennan

The American diplomat's reflections of his years of government service provide insight into four decades of U.S. policy

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Pantheon

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0394716264

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9780394716268

Interviews with George F. Kennan

By: George Frost Kennan

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Interviews with George F. Kennan

By: George Frost Kennan

George F. Kennan (b. 1904), is best known for his writings, pronouncements, and philosophical ex-changes, especially over the past fifty years when he became, in effect, the nation's premier diplomatic intellectual. Through his humane and thoughtful influence, he worked to moderate the fierce complexities of political policy in the West. The "long telegram" he sent the State Department from the embassy in Moscow in 1946 detailed his intricate thoughts on postwar Soviet politics as well as relations between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. He also articulated a long-term plan for containing Communism. This communiqué crystalized as the policy followed by the U.S. and its allies until the crash of the Soviet Union. Such prescience was typical of Kennan's political thought. "I believe," he said in 1956, thirty-three years before the Berlin Wall collapsed, that "some day Russia will have to abandon East Germany and let it rejoin Berlin." In 1960, forty years before others took up the banner, he decried the encroachment of technology on American culture and the fragmenting impact it was having on the average American's consciousness. That same year he noted how America's over-reliance on the automobile and the direction toward unchecked suburban growth were splintering communities, causing environmental degradation, and depleting resources, all of which have grown to be pressing issues in American discourse. This collection of Kennan's interviews ranges over four decades. All feature his perceptions on international affairs and foreign policy. Two have never before appeared in print--one from the Oral History Project at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the other from the John Foster Dulles Oral History Project. These give extensive, broad-ranging overviews of Kennan's career in international relations and the developments of his thought. T. Christopher Jespersen is chair of the history department at North Georgia College and State University. He is the author of American Images of China, 1931-1949 and editor (with David Schmitz) of Architects of the American Century: Individuals, Ideas, and Institutions in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy--Essays on American Foreign Policy-makers and the Organizations They Have Shaped.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578064481

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9781578064489

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

By: George Frost Kennan,John Lukacs

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George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

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University of Missouri Press

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9780826211095

The Kennan Diaries

By: George F. Kennan

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The Kennan Diaries

By: George F. Kennan

A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat. On a hot July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the steps of the State Department building as a newly retired man. His career had been tumultuous: early postings in eastern Europe followed by Berlin in 1940–41 and Moscow in the last year of World War II. In 1946, the forty-two-year-old Kennan authored the “Long Telegram,” a 5,500-word indictment of the Kremlin that became mandatory reading in Washington. A year later, in an article in Foreign Affairs, he outlined “containment,” America’s guiding strategy in the Cold War. Yet what should have been the pinnacle of his career—an ambassadorship in Moscow in 1952—was sabotaged by Kennan himself, deeply frustrated at his failure to ease the Cold War that he had helped launch. Yet, if it wasn’t the pinnacle, neither was it the capstone; over the next fifty years, Kennan would become the most respected foreign policy thinker of the twentieth century, giving influential lectures, advising presidents, and authoring twenty books, winning two Pulitzer prizes and two National Book awards in the process. Through it all, Kennan kept a diary. Spanning a staggering eighty-eight years and totaling over 8,000 pages, his journals brim with keen political and moral insights, philosophical ruminations, poetry, and vivid descriptions. In these pages, we see Kennan rambling through 1920s Europe as a college student, despairing for capitalism in the midst of the Depression, agonizing over the dilemmas of sex and marriage, becoming enchanted and then horrified by Soviet Russia, and developing into America’s foremost Soviet analyst. But it is the second half of this near-century-long record—the blossoming of Kennan the gifted author, wise counselor, and biting critic of the Vietnam and Iraq wars—that showcases this remarkable man at the height of his singular analytic and expressive powers, before giving way, heartbreakingly, to some of his most human moments, as his energy, memory, and finally his ability to write fade away. Masterfully selected and annotated by historian Frank Costigliola, the result is a landmark work of profound intellectual and emotional power. These diaries tell the complete narrative of Kennan’s life in his own intimate and unflinching words and, through him, the arc of world events in the twentieth century.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393242765

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9780393242768

The Kennan Diaries

By: George F. Kennan

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By: George F. Kennan

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Encounter with Kennan

The Great Debate

By: George F. Kennan

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Encounter with Kennan

The Great Debate

By: George F. Kennan

First published in 1979. We associate Professor Kennan, with what came to be known as a doctrine of containment, the first serious theoretical attempt within the American foreign policy establishment to understand the consequences for world affairs of a suddenly substantial and quite visible Soviet power. This collection of debates includes an opening conversation between Kennan and George Urban.

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Routledge

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1317792173

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9781317792178

Around the Cragged Hill

A Personal and Political Philosophy

By: George Frost Kennan

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Around the Cragged Hill

A Personal and Political Philosophy

By: George Frost Kennan

Winner of the National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, diplomat and scholar Kennan now steps forth with a compelling, provocative testament for our times--a brilliant look at the problems facing America today. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393311457

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9780393311457

American Diplomacy

By: George F. Kennan

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American Diplomacy

By: George F. Kennan

These lectures on American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century are “a classic foreign policy text” (Washington Post Book World). For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan’s American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over into self-righteousness, whose ambitions conflict with power realities, whose judgmentalism precludes the interests of other states, and whose domestic politics frequently prevent prudent policies and result in overstretch. Keenly aware of the dangers of military intervention and the negative effects of domestic politics on foreign policy, Kennan identifies troubling inconsistencies in the areas between actions and ideals—even when the strategies in question turned out to be decided successes. In this expanded anniversary edition, a substantial new introduction by John J. Mearsheimer, one of America’s leading political realists, provides new understandings of Kennan’s work and explores its continued resonance. As America grapples with its new role as one power among many—rather than as the “indispensable nation” that sees “further into the future”—Kennan’s perceptive analysis of the past is all the more relevant. Today, as then, the pressing issue of how to wield power with prudence and responsibility remains, and Kennan’s cautions about the cost of hubris are still timely. Refreshingly candid, American Diplomacy cuts to the heart of policy issues that continue to be hotly debated today. “These celebrated lectures, delivered at the University of Chicago in 1950, were for many years the most widely read account of American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century.” —Foreign Affairs, Significant Books of the Last 75 Years

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University of Chicago Press

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0226431495

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9780226431499

Through the History of the Cold War

The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

By: John Lukacs

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Through the History of the Cold War

The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

By: John Lukacs

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs's surprise, he received a personal reply from Kennan. So began an exchange of letters that would continue for more than fifty years. Lukacs would go on to become one of America's most distinguished and prolific diplomatic historians, while Kennan, who would retire from public life to begin a new career as Pulitzer Prize-winning author, would become revered as the man whose strategy of containment led to a peaceful end to the Cold War. Their letters, collected here for the first time, capture the writing and thinking of two of the country's most important voices on America's role and place in world affairs. From the division of Europe into East and West after World War II to its unification as the Soviet Union disintegrated, and from the war in Vietnam to the threat of nuclear annihilation and the fate of democracy in America and the world, this book provides an insider's tour of the issues and pivotal events that defined the Cold War. The correspondence also charts the growth and development of an intellectual and personal friendship that is intense, devoted, and honest. As Kennan writes in a later letter to Lukacs, "perceptive, understanding, and constructive criticism is . . . as I see it, in itself a form of creative philosophical thought." It is a belief to which both men subscribed and that they both practiced. Presented with an introduction by Lukacs, the letters in Through the History of the Cold War reveal new dimensions to Kennan's thinking about America and its future, and illuminate the political—and spiritual—philosophies that the two authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and by the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081224253X

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9780812242539

At a Century's Ending

Reflections, 1982-1995

By: George Frost Kennan

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At a Century's Ending

Reflections, 1982-1995

By: George Frost Kennan

As participant and observer, George F. Kennan has left an indelible mark on more than six decades of this century. In this new volume of essays, reviews, and speeches, Kennan reflects on the forces that have shaped this tragic century.

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W. W. Norton

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0393038823

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9780393038828

The Drama of Democracy

American Government and Politics

By: George McKenna

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The Drama of Democracy

American Government and Politics

By: George McKenna

This text explores American democracy using well-developed stories and highlighting debates that have shaped the country's politics. It views aspects of government and politics through the four theoretical perspectives of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and Lincoln.

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0697326748

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9780697326744

Book's by George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

Sketches from a Life

Sketches from a Life

Memoirs, 1950-1963

Memoirs, 1950-1963

Interviews with George F. Kennan

Interviews with George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946

The Kennan Diaries

The Kennan Diaries

The Kennan Diaries

The Kennan Diaries

Encounter with Kennan

Encounter with Kennan

Around the Cragged Hill

Around the Cragged Hill

American Diplomacy

American Diplomacy

Through the History of the Cold War

Through the History of the Cold War

At a Century's Ending

At a Century's Ending

The Drama of Democracy

The Drama of Democracy

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