
George F. Kennan
An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis(Author)
The Penguin Press
Published on 1. December 2011
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-1-59420-312-1 (ISBN)
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We can be grateful to John Lewis Gaddis for bringing Kennan back to us, thoughtful, human, self-centred, contradictory, inspirational - a permanent spur as consciences are wont to be. Masterfully researched, exhaustively documented, Gaddis's moving work gives us a figure with whom, however one might differ on details, it was a privilege to be a contemporary. -- Henry A. Kissinger * New York Times Book Review * Kennan's life maps right onto twentieth-century political history, and no one is better qualified than Gaddis to lead the way through it ... Gaddis has written with care and elegance, and he has produced a biography whose fineness is worthy of its subject. -- Louis Menand * New Yorker * Well worth the wait. George F. Kennan: An American Life works brilliantly as a piece of intellectual history, and as a biography of a fascinating and complex man. Fortunately, both Gaddis and Kennan write beautifully. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
1162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59420-312-1 (9781594203121)
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Person
John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941 in Cotulla, Texas, U.S.) is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by the New York Times. Cold War (Allen Lane, 2006) was Waterstone's Book of the Month. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.