LEADER 01390nam a2200349 i 4500001 99129013164606421 005 20230314132438.0 006 m o d | 007 cr || |||||||| 008 230314s2023 nju o 000 0 eng d 020 9780691189307 020 0691189307 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 (FR-PaCSA)88956652 035 (FRCYB88956652)88956652 035 (Perlego)3566270 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 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 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. 588 Description based on print version record. 600 10 Kennan, George F. |q(George Frost), |d1904-2005. 650 0 Ambassadors |zUnited States |vBiography. 776 08 |z9780691270746 776 08 |z0691270740 776 08 |z9780691165400 776 08 |z0691165408 906 BOOK