LEADER 04786nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910818881603321 005 20240418023801.0 010 $a0-8122-2271-7 010 $a1-283-89701-6 010 $a0-8122-0485-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204858 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047059 035 $a(OCoLC)794700626 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606121 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390721 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606121 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581998 035 $a(PQKB)10482296 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12314133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10859264 035 $a(PQKB)11317520 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8253 035 $a(DE-B1597)449364 035 $a(OCoLC)979684721 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641563 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420951 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441728 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047059 100 $a20100127d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThrough the history of the Cold War $ethe correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs /$fedited by John Lukacs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8122-4253-X 327 $aIntroduction -- The Cold War begins: containment or liberation letters, 1952-1954 -- The Cold War at its peak : the Soviet Union redux letters, 1954-1964 -- How history should be written letters, 1964-1983 -- The evil empire and the end of the Cold War letters, 1983-1988 -- The end of an age: American hegemony letters, 1988-2004. 330 $aIn September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs's surprise, he received a personal reply from Kennan.So began an exchange of letters that would continue for more than fifty years. Lukacs would go on to become one of America's most distinguished and prolific diplomatic historians, while Kennan, who would retire from public life to begin a new career as Pulitzer Prize-winning author, would become revered as the man whose strategy of containment led to a peaceful end to the Cold War. Their letters, collected here for the first time, capture the writing and thinking of two of the country's most important voices on America's role and place in world affairs. From the division of Europe into East and West after World War II to its unification as the Soviet Union disintegrated, and from the war in Vietnam to the threat of nuclear annihilation and the fate of democracy in America and the world, this book provides an insider's tour of the issues and pivotal events that defined the Cold War.The correspondence also charts the growth and development of an intellectual and personal friendship that was intense, devoted, and honest. As Kennan later wrote Lukacs in letter, "perceptive, understanding, and constructive criticism is . . . as I see it, in itself a form of creative philosophical thought." It is a belief to which both men subscribed and that they both practiced.Presented with an introduction by Lukacs, the letters in Through the History of the Cold War reveal new dimensions to Kennan's thinking about America and its future, and illuminate the political-and spiritual-philosophies that the two authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and by the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century. 606 $aCold War$vSources 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989$vSources 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union$vSources 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States$vSources 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aCold War 676 $a909.82/5 700 $aKennan$b George F$g(George Frost),$f1904-2005.$0160713 701 $aLukacs$b John$f1924-2019.$01175639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818881603321 996 $aThrough the history of the Cold War$94053525 997 $aUNINA