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      Interviews with George F. Kennan

      George Frost Kennan

      George F. Kennan is best known for his writings, pronouncements, and philosophical exchanges, especially over the past fifty years when he became, in effect, America’s premier diplomatic intellectual. This collection…

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      George F. Kennan: An Annotated Bibliography

      Laurel F. Franklin

      This bibliography brings together and annotates works by and about Kennan.

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      George F. Kennan: An American Life

      John Lewis Gaddis

      The full scope of George Kennan’s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today’s most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost…

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      George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast

      Walter Hixson

      Traces the life of the American diplomat, examines his iconclastic positions, and shares his criticism of the Reagan’s administration.

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      George F. Kennan: Cold War Iconoclast

      Walter L. Hixson

      This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind and the knowledge of which it is…

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      E.H. Harriman: Railroad Czar

      George F. Kennan

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      E.H. Harriman: Railroad Czar

      George F. Kennan

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      Realities of American Foreign Policy

      George F Kennan

      The task of international politics at the present time, writes Mr. Kennan, is to find means to permit change to proceed without repeatedly shaking the peace of the world. American…

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      Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: Russia Leaves the War

      George F. Kennan

      Mr. Kennan has developed a true scholar’s integrity; and he writes with delightful elegance… . The book is a pleasure to read, [even] apart from the importance of its theme…

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      Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy

      George F. Kennan

      [Kennan] comes to us…as ambassador of a generation nearly gone and a conservatism so responsible, dutiful and so long extinct it may look revolutionary….As ever, Kennan in the present book…

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      At a Century’s Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

      George F. Kennan

      Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s… .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in Stalinist…

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      Sketches from a Life

      George F. Kennan

      Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan’s account is rich with the insight of a major historical participant. Whether relating the perils…

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      George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

      George F Kennan,John Lukacs

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      The Long Telegram: A 1946 Call for Containment of the Soviet Union

      George F Kennan

      (while Soviet power was) impervious to the logic of reason, it was highly sensitive to the logic of force. -The Long Telegram, George F. Kennan (1946)

      Although the United States…

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      Long Telegram: A 1946 Call for Containment of the Soviet Union

      George F Kennan

      (while Soviet power was) impervious to the logic of reason, it was highly sensitive to the logic of force. -The Long Telegram, George F. Kennan (1946)

      Although the United States…

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      Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: The Decision to Intervene

      George F. Kennan

      As with the first volume, an extraordinarily complex story is developed with great skill, scholarship and reflective analysis. -Foreign Affairs

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      George F. Kennan’s Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist

      Richard Russell

      Looks beyond containment, however, to sift through Kennan’s work to illuminate the worldview that informed his analysis of international relations and American foreign policy.

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      The Kennan Diaries

      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.

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      Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

      Presented with an introduction by John Lukacs, the letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan’s thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political-and spiritual-philosophies that…

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      Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia

      Paul J Heer

      George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine. During his influential Cold War career…

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      Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia

      Paul J. Heer

      George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine. During his influential Cold War career…

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      American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson

      John Lamberton Harper (The Johns Hopkins University)

      These portraits of three American statesmen are set against the background of the events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. The purpose of the book is to explain…

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      American Diplomacy

      George 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…

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      Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate

      George F. Kennan,Leopold Labedz,Melvin J. Lasky,Richard Lowenthal,Richard Pipes

      First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate

      George F. Kennan,Leopold Labedz,Melvin J. Lasky,Richard Lowenthal,Richard Pipes

      First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

      Jonathan Haslam (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies)

      The true story of Soviet intelligence, from the very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War - now told in full for the first time

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