George F. Kennan: An American Life

Name: George F. Kennan: An American Life
Brand: Penguin Random House
SKU: 122151
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Author: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 9780143122159

By: John Lewis Gaddis

Penguin Random House / 2012 / Paperback

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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.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this extraordinary biography delves into the mind of the brilliant diplomat who shaped U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union for decades. 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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Title: George F. Kennan: An American Life
By: John Lewis Gaddis
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 800
Vendor: Penguin Random House
Publication Date: 2012

Dimensions: 8.44 X 5.50 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0143122150
ISBN-13: 9780143122159
Stock No: WW122151

Author Bio

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John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan.