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(Diplomat) George F. Kennan was an American historian and diplomat. He was one of ‘The Wise Men,’ of the group of American foreign policy elders. He strongly advocated the policy of ‘containment’ adopted by the United State to stop the spread of Soviet influence after the ‘Second World War.’.
May 23, 2018 · Born February 16, 1904. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S. diplomat, historian, and author. G eorge F. Kennan is considered one of the greatest diplomats and statesmen of the United States. Kennan played a major role in formulating U.S. foreign policy, especially on the issue of Soviet-U.S. relations during the early stages of the Cold War.
Dec 7, 2011 · For much of the Cold War, George F. Kennan was America's best-known diplomat and a leading Soviet scholar. His reputation was based in large part on the 1947 essay he wrote on containment,...
Nov 6, 2011 · The one puzzle in John Lewis Gaddis’s first-rate biography of the diplomat George Kennan, which Gaddis began in 1982, when his subject was seventy-eight, and waited nearly thirty years...
Jan 17, 2023 · 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 ...
George F. Kennan: An American Life is a nonfiction book about U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan by John Lewis Gaddis that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.
Mar 4, 2024 · Frank Costigliola has written a major biography of the scholar and diplomat, George F. Kennan. Kennan had a distinguished career in the American foreign service, and this book offers an impressive and detailed account of his life and times in the early years of the Cold War.
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