LEADER 01390nam a2200349 i 4500001 99129013164606421 005 20230314132438.0 006 m o d | 007 cr || |||||||| 008 230314s2023 nju o 000 0 eng d 020 0-691-18930-7 024 7 10.1515/9780691189307 |2doi 035 (CKB)5690000000056063 035 (DE-B1597)635444 035 (DE-B1597)9780691189307 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC7126506 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL7126506 035 (OCoLC)1350432079 035 (MdBmJHUP)musev2_109851 035 (OCoLC)1353269630 035 (EXLCZ)995690000000056063 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 0 eng 043 n-us--- 044 nju |cUS-NJ 050 4 E748.K374 |b.C678 2023 072 7 BIO010000 |2bisacsh 082 0 327.73047 |223 100 1 Costigliola, Frank, |eauthor. 245 10 Kennan : |ba life between worlds / |cFrank Costigliola. 264 1 Princeton, N. J. : |bPrinceton University Press, |c[2023] 264 4 |c©2023 300 1 online resource (648 p.) : |b40 b/w illus. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 520 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 Costigliola’s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia.Even as Kennan championed rational realism in foreign policy, his personal and professional lives were marked by turmoil. And though he was widely respected and honored by presidents and the public, he judged his career a failure because he had been dropped as a pilot of U.S. foreign policy. Impossible to classify, Kennan was a sui generis thinker, a trenchant critic of both communism and capitalism, and a pioneering environmentalist. Living between Russia and the United States, he witnessed firsthand Stalin’s tightening grip on the Soviet Union, the collapse of Europe during World War II, and the nuclear arms race of the Cold War.An absorbing portrait of an eloquent, insightful, and sometimes blinkered iconoclast whose ideas are still powerfully relevant, Kennan invites us to imagine a world that Kennan fought for but was unable to bring about—one not of confrontations and crises but of dialogue and diplomacy. 546 In English. 505 00 |tFrontmatter -- |tTable of contents -- |tAcknowledgments -- |tPreface -- |tIntroduction -- |tCHAPTER 1 Not Very Happy People The Kennan Family, 1904–1925 -- |tCHAPTER 2 Seeking Russia from Germany, 1926–1933 -- |tCHAPTER 3 The “Madness of ’34” -- |tCHAPTER 4 Stalin’s Terror and Kennan’s Trauma, 1935–1937 -- |tCHAPTER 5 Kennan and the Descent into War, 1937–1939 -- |tCHAPTER 6 Kennan and a World at War, 1939–1944 -- |tCHAPTER 7 Cold War Founder and Skeptic, 1944–1950 -- |tCHAPTER 8 “Chosen Instrument” Kennan’s Tragedy in Moscow, 1951–1952 -- |tCHAPTER 9 Contesting the Cold War, 1953–1966 -- |tCHAPTER 10 Kennan Embattled, 1967–1982 -- |tCHAPTER 11 Almost Unstoppable, 1983–2005 -- |tCONCLUSION The Limits of Honor -- |tnotes -- |tIndex 588 Description based on print version record. 650 0 Ambassadors |zUnited States |vBiography. 600 10 Kennan, George F. |q(George Frost), |d1904-2005. 653 A Terrible Mistake. 653 Adolf Hitler. 653 Aftermath of World War II. 653 American Thinker. 653 Anti-Americanism. 653 Anti-communism. 653 Appeasement. 653 Ash heap of history. 653 Atlantic Community. 653 Big lie. 653 Bolsheviks. 653 Boris Godunov. 653 Carmel Offie. 653 Cataclysm (Dragonlance). 653 Cold War (1985–91). 653 Cold War. 653 Communism. 653 Communist propaganda. 653 Containment. 653 Counter-revolutionary. 653 Dean Rusk. 653 Demagogue. 653 Disarmament. 653 Disenchantment. 653 Drew Pearson (journalist). 653 Eros and Civilization. 653 Evil empire. 653 Fall of the Western Roman Empire. 653 Franklin D. Roosevelt. 653 George F. Kennan. 653 George Kennan (explorer). 653 German Order (decoration). 653 German re-armament. 653 Great Disappointment. 653 Great Purge. 653 Henry A. Wallace. 653 Huey Long. 653 Hungarian Revolution of 1956. 653 Imperialism. 653 Jeremiad. 653 Jimmy Carter. 653 Jingoism. 653 John F. Kennedy. 653 John Hersey. 653 John Lewis Gaddis. 653 Joseph Stalin. 653 Josip Broz Tito. 653 Karl Marx. 653 Konrad Adenauer. 653 Kurt Schuschnigg. 653 Lavrentiy Beria. 653 Lazar Kaganovich. 653 Lecture. 653 Loss of China. 653 Mail. 653 Marshall Plan. 653 Maxim Litvinov. 653 Memoir. 653 Mr. 653 Muckraker. 653 Nazi Germany. 653 Nazi propaganda. 653 Nikita Khrushchev. 653 Nuclear arms race. 653 Nuclear warfare. 653 On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences. 653 Ostracism. 653 Paul-Henri Spaak. 653 Persona non grata. 653 Plausible deniability. 653 Police state. 653 Reprisal. 653 Ridicule. 653 Romanticism. 653 Round Table. 653 Russian culture. 653 Russians. 653 Scholasticism. 653 Secret police. 653 Sinclair Lewis. 653 Soviet Empire. 653 Soviet Union. 653 Soviet Union–United States relations. 653 Soviet dissidents. 653 Stereotypes of Jews. 653 Superiority (short story). 653 Svetlana Alliluyeva. 653 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 653 Theodore Dreiser. 653 Time of Troubles. 653 Total war. 653 Un-American. 653 United States Department of State. 653 W. Averell Harriman. 653 War and Peace. 653 War crime. 653 War. 653 Weimar Republic. 653 West Germany. 653 World War II. 776 |z0-691-27074-0 776 |z0-691-16540-8 906 BOOK