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LEADER: 02271cam a22003614a 4500
001 2011021786
003 DLC
005 20120317083301.0
008 110602s2011 nyuaf b 001 0beng
010 $a 2011021786
020 $a9781594203121 (hardcover)
020 $a1594203121 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn707969078
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050 00 $aE748.K374$bG34 2011
082 00 $a327.730092$aB$223
100 1 $aGaddis, John Lewis.
245 10 $aGeorge F. Kennan :$ban American life /$cJohn Lewis Gaddis.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2011.
300 $axi, 784 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [703]-749, [751]-762) and index.
520 $aA remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.
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.
600 10 $aKennan, George F.$q(George Frost),$d1904-2005.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCold War$xDiplomatic history.
650 0 $aDiplomats$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aAmbassadors$zUnited States$vBiography.