George F. Kennan: An American Life

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Издание 2011 года

Автор: Джон Льюис Гэддис

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year

Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.

In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the “Long Telegram” and the “X Article,” which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan’s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today’s most important Cold War scholars.

Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan’s death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep.

We see Kennan’s insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

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ONE Childhood: 1904 –1921
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TWO Princeton: 1921 –1925
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THREE The Foreign Service: 1925 –1931
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FOUR Marriage —and Moscow: 1931–1933
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FIVE The Origins of Soviet-American Relations: 1933 –1936
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SIX Rediscovering America: 1936 –1938
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SEVEN Czechoslovakia and Germany: 1938 –1941
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EIGHT The United States at War: 1941 –1944
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NINE Back in the U.S.S.R.: 1944 –1945
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TEN A Very Long Telegram: 1945 –1946
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ELEVEN A Grand Strategic Education: 1946
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TWELVE Mr. X: 1947
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THIRTEEN Policy Planner: 1947 –1948
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FOURTEEN Policy Dissenter: 1948
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FIFTEEN Reprieve: 1949
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SIXTEEN Disengagement: 1950
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SEVENTEEN Public Figure, Private Doubts: 1950 –1951
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EIGHTEEN Mr. Ambassador: 1952
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NINETEEN Finding a Niche: 1953 –1955
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TWENTY A Rare Possibility of Usefulness: 1955 –1958
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TWENTY-ONE Kennedy and Yugoslavia: 1958 –1963
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TWENTY-TWO Counter-Cultural Critic: 1963 –1968
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TWENTY-FOUR A Precarious Vindication: 1980 –1990
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TWENTY-FIVE Last Things: 1991 –2005
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EPILOGUE 1 Greatness
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ONE • CHILDHOOD: 1904–1921
TWO • PRINCETON: 1921–1925
THREE ● THE FOREIGN SERVICE: 1925–1931
FOUR ● MARRIAGE—AND MOSCOW: 1931–1933
FIVE ● THE ORIGINS OF SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1933–1936
SIX ● REDISCOVERING AMERICA: 1936–1938
SEVEN ● CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND GERMANY: 1938–1941
EIGHT ● THE UNITED STATES AT WAR: 1941–1944
NINE ● BACK IN THE U.S.S.R.: 1944–1945
TEN ● A VERY LONG TELEGRAM: 1945–1946
ELEVEN ● A GRAND STRATEGIC EDUCATION: 1946
TWELVE ● MR. X: 1947
THIRTEEN ● POLICY PLANNER: 1947–1948
FOURTEEN ● POLICY DISSENTER: 1948
FIFTEEN ● REPRIEVE: 1949
SIXTEEN ● DISENGAGEMENT: 1950
SEVENTEEN ● PUBLIC FIGURE, PRIVATE DOUBTS: 1950–1951
EIGHTEEN ● MR. AMBASSADOR: 1952
NINETEEN • FINDING A NICHE: 1953–1955
TWENTY ● A RARE POSSIBILITY OF USEFULNESS: 1955–1958
TWENTY-ONE ● KENNEDY AND YUGOSLAVIA: 1958–1963
TWENTY-TWO ● COUNTER-CULTURAL CRITIC: 1963–1968
TWENTY-THREE ● PROPHET OF THE APOCALYPSE: 1968–1980
TWENTY-FOUR ● A PRECARIOUS VINDICATION: 1980–1990
TWENTY-FIVE ● LAST THINGS: 1991–2005
EPILOGUE ● GREATNESS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTERVIEWS [a]
OFFICIAL FILES
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
BOOKS
ARTICLES
INDEX
PHOTOGRAPHS
ALSO BY JOHN LEWIS GADDIS
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