Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Introduction -- I: EARLY CAREER -- 1. Early Influences and Development -- 2. First Tour in the Soviet Union -- 3. Criticisms and Recommendations -- 4. Nazi Germany and the Future of Europe -- 5. Soviet War Aims and the Grand Alliance -- II: MAKING FOREIGN POLICY -- 6. Containment and the Primacy of Diplomacy -- 7. Cold War in Europe -- 8. Far Eastern Dilemmas -- 9. Two Ambassadorships -- III: ON THE SIDELINES -- 10. Cold War Critic -- 11. America and the Third World -- 12. War and Protest -- 13. Detente and the Nuclear Arms Race -- 14. Diplomacy and the Politics of Amelioration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of George Kennan examines his participation in the process of making foreign policy and interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical framework. He 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 role 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 prominent political figures and analysts of his time as Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and Walter Lippmann.

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