Kennan : : A Life between Worlds / / Frank Costigliola.

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• VerfasserIn: Costigliola, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.) :; 40 b/w illus.

A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy—and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costig...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 Not Very Happy People The Kennan Family, 1904–1925
• CHAPTER 2 Seeking Russia from Germany, 1926–1933
• CHAPTER 3 The “Madness of ’34”
• CHAPTER 4 Stalin’s Terror and Kennan’s Trauma, 1935–1937
• CHAPTER 5 Kennan and the Descent into War, 1937–1939
• CHAPTER 6 Kennan and a World at War, 1939–1944
• CHAPTER 7 Cold War Founder and Skeptic, 1944–1950
• CHAPTER 8 “Chosen Instrument” Kennan’s Tragedy in Moscow, 1951–1952
• CHAPTER 9 Contesting the Cold War, 1953–1966
• CHAPTER 10 Kennan Embattled, 1967–1982
• CHAPTER 11 Almost Unstoppable, 1983–2005
• CONCLUSION The Limits of Honor
• notes
• Index