LEADER 03624nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910964649703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780300180954 010 $a0300180950 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300180954 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104970 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24486066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669134 035 $a(PQKB)11203444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420914 035 $a(DE-B1597)485731 035 $a(OCoLC)1024035937 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300180954 035 $a(Perlego)1089725 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104970 100 $a20061120d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeorge Kennan $ea study of character /$fJohn Lukacs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780300122213 311 08$a0300122217 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tOne. A Lonely Youth --$tTwo. In The Foreign Service --$tThree. First Officer On The Bridge Of The Ship Of State --$tFour. Washington To Princeton --$tFive. A Conscience Of A Nation --$tSix. The Historian --$tSeven. Philosophy, Religion; Memory; Old Age --$tAppendix. Two Finest Hours --$tSuggestions For Further Research --$tIndex 330 $aA man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and-last but not least-of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire; but then he became a scholar who wrote seventeen books, scores of essays and articles, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir. He also wrote remarkable public lectures and many thousands of incisive letters, laying down his pen only in the hundredth year of his life.Having risen within the American Foreign Service and been posted to various European capitals, and twice to Moscow, Kennan was called back to Washington in 1946, where he helped to inspire the Truman Doctrine and draft the Marshall Plan. Among other things, he wrote the "X" or "Containment" article for which he became, and still is, world famous (an article which he regarded as not very important and liable to misreading). John Lukacs describes the development and the essence of Kennan's thinking; the-perhaps unavoidable-misinterpretations of his advocacies; his self-imposed task as a leading realist critic during the Cold War; and the importance of his work as a historian during the second half of his long life. 606 $aAmbassadors$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aScholars$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHistorians$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aCharacter$vCase studies 606 $aCold War 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 615 0$aAmbassadors 615 0$aScholars 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aCharacter 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a327.730092 676 $aB 700 $aLukacs$b John$f1924-$0473434 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964649703321 996 $aGeorge Kennan$9226805 997 $aUNINA