George F. Kennan: An American Life

939 Pages·2011·6.44 MB·English

by  John Lewis Gaddis

001

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface

Part I
ONE - Childhood: 1904–1921
TWO - Princeton: 1921–1925
THREE - The Foreign Service: 1925–1931
FOUR - Marriage—and Moscow: 1931–1933

Part II
FIVE - The Origins of Soviet-American Relations: 1933–1936
SIX - Rediscovering America: 1936–1938
SEVEN - Czechoslovakia and Germany: 1938–1941
EIGHT - The United States at War: 1941–1944
NINE - Back in the U.S.S.R.: 1944–1945
TEN - A Very Long Telegram: 1945–1946

Part III
ELEVEN - A Grand Strategic Education: 1946
TWELVE - Mr. X: 1947
THIRTEEN - Policy Planner: 1947–1948
FOURTEEN - Policy Dissenter: 1948
FIFTEEN - Reprieve: 1949
SIXTEEN - Disengagement: 1950
Part IV
SEVENTEEN - Public Figure, Private Doubts: 1950–1951
EIGHTEEN - Mr. Ambassador: 1952
NINETEEN - Finding a Niche: 1953–1955
TWENTY - A Rare Possibility of Usefulness: 1955–1958
TWENTY-ONE - Kennedy and Yugoslavia: 1958–1963

Part V
TWENTY-TWO - Counter-Cultural Critic: 1963–1968
TWENTY-THREE - Prophet of the Apocalypse: 1968–1980
TWENTY-FOUR - A Precarious Vindication: 1980–1990
TWENTY-FIVE - Last Things: 1991–2005

EPILOGUE
Acknowledgements
ABBREVIATIONS TO NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ALSO BY JOHN LEWIS GADDIS
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The Cold War: A New History
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations,
Provocations
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War
Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National
Security
Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947
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Gaddis, John Lewis.
George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN : 978-1-101-54810-3
1. Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904–2005. 2. United States—Foreign relations—1945–1989. 3.
World
politics—1945–1989. 4. United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union. 5. Soviet Union—Foreign
relations—United States. 6. Cold war—Diplomatic history. 7. Diplomats—United States—
Biography. 8. Ambassadors—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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