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George F. Kennan
An American Life
By Gaddis, John Lewis
- ISBN
- 978-1-59420-312-1
- Publisher
- Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA)
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Reviewed on September 15, 2011
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) exerted a profound influence on the conduct of American foreign policy, especially during the years of the Cold War. His famous 1947 Foreign Affairs article, "Sources of Soviet Conduct," published under the pseudonym X, laid the theoretical groundwork for "containing" the Soviet Union in those hectic and dangerous postwar years. As Kennan's authorized biographer, Gaddis (The Cold War: A New History)—himself one of o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
