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Kennan
Frank Costigliola
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Sachbuch / Biographien, Autobiographien
Beschreibung
A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. Kennan
The 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.
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Cold War (1985–91), Soviet Empire, Anti-communism, Lazar Kaganovich, Nazi Germany, Nuclear arms race, Aftermath of World War II, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Bolsheviks, Fall of the Western Roman Empire, Nuclear warfare, Karl Marx, German Order (decoration), Marshall Plan, Un-American, Ostracism, Lecture, Russian culture, Muckraker, Adolf Hitler, Imperialism, Anti-Americanism, Containment, John Lewis Gaddis, Drew Pearson (journalist), John Hersey, Superiority (short story), Demagogue, Maxim Litvinov, Appeasement, Evil empire, Ridicule, Weimar Republic, Nazi propaganda, Eros and Civilization, Joseph Stalin, American Thinker, Konrad Adenauer, A Terrible Mistake, George F. Kennan, Henry A. Wallace, Big lie, Huey Long, Great Disappointment, Lavrentiy Beria, Scholasticism, United States Department of State, World War II, Kurt Schuschnigg, Soviet Union, Soviet Union–United States relations, W. Averell Harriman, John F. Kennedy, West Germany, Secret police, Sinclair Lewis, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, German re-armament, Cold War, Loss of China, Theodore Dreiser, Disenchantment, Russians, Jimmy Carter, George Kennan (explorer), Dean Rusk, Romanticism, Soviet dissidents, Stereotypes of Jews, Mr.