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082	0	0	_a92 KEN
100	1		_aGaddis, John Lewis
245	1	0	_aGeorge F. Kennan _b: an American life _c/ John Lewis Gaddis.
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2011.
300			_axi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [703]-749, [751]-762) and index.
505	0		_aChildhood : 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.
520			_aGaddis, the noted Yale cold war historian, had total access to Kennan's papers as well as to his family members and associates. Kennan so trusted his biographer that he remarked, "write [the book], if you will, on the confident assumption that no account need be taken of my own reaction... either in this world or the next." Through his privileged relationship with Kennan, Gaddis reveals the man behind the public persona as an agonized and fragile individual who often felt alienated from the U.S. and his fellow citizens, despite his tireless service to his country. In addition to the intimacies of the work, Gaddis offers critical analyses of Kennan's key roles as diplomat, policy maker, and scholar of Russian history. Unsurpassed in his strategic vision during the cold war, Kennan is credited with being responsible for much of America's eventual victory, and therein lies the impetus behind this remarkable biography.
600	1	0	_aKennan, George F. _q(George Frost) _d, 1904-2005
650		4	_aWorld politics _y-1945-1989
650		0	_aCold war
650		0	_aDiplomats _z--United States _v--Biography
650		0	_aAmbassadors _z--United States _v--Biography
651			_aUnited States _x-Foreign relations _z-Soviet Union
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