Overview :Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of... Read More
Overview :This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind a... Read More
Overview :When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questio... Read More
Overview :George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Trum... Read More
Overview :In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union... Read More
Overview :Yet, if it wasn't the pinnacle, neither was it the capstone; over the next fifty years, Kennan would become the most respected foreign polic... Read More
Overview :Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan's account is rich with the insight of a major h... Read More
Overview :First edition, good condition copy of Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin. Textblock is tight and clean. Cover has very minor bumping... Read More
Overview :The task of international politics at the present time, writes Mr. Kennan, is "to find means to permit change to proceed without repeatedly ... Read More
Overview :For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his conside... Read More
Overview :In 1918 the United States government decided to involve itself with the Russian Revolution by sending troops to Siberia. This book recreates... Read More
Overview :"I have attempted to take the high ground," writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broad... Read More
Overview :"I have attempted to take the high ground," writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broad... Read More
Overview :"(while Soviet power was) impervious to the logic of reason, it was highly sensitive to the logic of force." -The Long Telegram, George F. K... Read More
Overview :The troubled days in Russia during World War I, from the Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917 to Russia's final departure from the wa... Read More
Overview :In 1945 the United States saw the Soviet Union as its principal ally. By 1947, it saw the Soviet Union as its principal opponent. How did th... Read More