George F. Kennan: An American Life World History are featured here with extracts

are featured here with extracts from his longer works

Bertha von Suttner

Can he help her find Ladybug

They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view

George F. Kennan: An American Life World History are featured here with extractsWidely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War historian. In the late 1940s, George F. Kennanthen a bright but, relatively obscure American diplomatwrote the "long telegram" and the "X" article. These two documents laid out United States' strategy for "containing" the Soviet Uniona strategy which Kennan