George F. Kennan : an American life / John Lewis Gaddis
A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself
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| Hauptverfasser: | Gaddis, John Lewis, 1941- |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY [u.a.] : Penguin Press, 2011 |
| Schlagworte: |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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| Childhood : 1904-1921 |
| Princeton : 1921-1925 |
| The Foreign Service : 1925-1931 |
| Marriage-- and Moscow : 1931-1933 |
| The origins of Soviet-American relations : 1933-1936 |
| Rediscovering America : 1936-1938 |
| Czechoslovakia and Germany : 1938-1941 |
| The United States at war : 1941-1944 |
| Back in the U.S.S.R. : 1944-1945 |
| A very long telegram : 1945-1946 |
| A grand strategic education : 1946 |
| Mr. X : 1947 |
| Policy planner : 1947-1948 |
| Policy dissenter : 1948 |
| Reprieve : 1949 |
| Disengagement : 1950 |
| Public figure, private doubts : 1950-1951 |
| Mr. Ambassador : 1952 |
| Finding a niche : 1953-1955 |
| A rare possibility of usefulness : 1955-1958 |
| Kennedy and Yugoslavia : 1958-1963 |
| Counter-cultural critic : 1963-1968 |
| Prophet of the Apocalypse : 1968-1980 |
| A precarious vindication : 1980-1990 |
| Last things : 1991-2005 |
