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A Man Of Impressive Mental Powers, Of Extraordinary Intellectual Range, And - Last, But Not Least, - Of 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 Prize-winning 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, Twice To Moscow, Kennan In 1946 Was Called Back To Washington, 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 World Famous - An Article Which He Regarded As Not Very Important And Liable To Misreading. John Lukacs Describes The Development And The Essence Of Kennan's Thinking; The - Perhaps Unavoidable - Misinterpretations Of His Advocacies; His Self-imposed Task A

Author

Lukacs, John

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300143065

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.78 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14