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George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy

By David Mayers

Book information

Year
1990
ISBN
019506318X, 9780195063189, 9781423734635
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33118759 bytes)
Pages
416\417
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government's chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War. Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of George Kennan examines his high-level participation in foreign policy-making and interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical framework. Mayers presents an engaging and lucid account of Kennan's training; his rise to prominence during the late 1940s and his policy failures; and his later roles as critic of America's external policy, advocate of détente with the Soviet Union, and proponent of nuclear arms limitation. Mayers also explores Kennan's complicated relationships with such important political figures and analysts as Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and Walter Lippmann.

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