George F. Kennan
An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Published on 10. November 2011
800 pages
978-1-101-54810-3 (ISBN)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this extraordinary biography delves into the mind of the brilliant diplomat who shaped U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union for decades. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.
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John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan.
Content
- Intro
- 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
