George F. Kennan: An American Life
George F. Kennan: An American Life won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was 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. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781101548103
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Cold War diplomacyU.S. foreign policySoviet containment strategy
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(2012)
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