On Dealing with Communist World

George F. Kennan

Joanna Cotler Books

Harper&Row

American Diplomacy (WFL Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Chicago Press

Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: Russia Leaves the War (Classic Reprint)

History

Russia

Forgotten Books

"One of the wisest men in American public life today." ―James Chace Accompany George Kennan as he explores his family's roots in the American past. George F. Kennan has forged one of the most illustrious careers in the annals of American letters and politics. His prophetic American Diplomacy influenced several generations of Cold War policy makers, and Sketches from a Life, one of the most lyrical accounts of a life in public service ever written, chronicled his extraordinary diplomatic career spanning more than half a century. As a consummate statesman and prolific writer, Kennan has distinguished himself as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Now in his late nineties, Kennan turns an eye to a matter closer to his heart in An American Family: The Kennans. Embarking on a genealogical journey spanning several decades, he traces the roots of the Kennan family back more than five generations, discovering a family history that has all the makings of a classic American story. Beginning with the Kennans' life of unmitigated poverty in Scotland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, An American Family details the Kennan family's passage to America and the hardships they faced as early settlers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, "the epitome of the backcountry family of the most remote northern fringes of New England life." He adroitly captures life in colonial times and in the period following the Revolutionary War, and chronicles the major events of a nation's early history with the rare intimacy of a family member reflecting on his forebears. Filled with lively and sometimes haunting vignettes collected from archives and libraries across New England, An American Family is a fascinating detective story and brings to fruition a family memoir begun by Kennan's grandfather nearly a century ago. Graceful yet revealing, it is a cherished reminder of three hundred years of a nation's history through the eyes and words of one of America's most remarkable sons.

An American Family: The Kennans: The First Three Generations

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

Chronicles the collapse of a confident, forward-looking Europe into World War I

The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia and the Coming of the First World War

Pantheon Books

"The importance of [the 1913] report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today. . . to reveal to people of this age how much of today's problem has deep roots and how much does not. It will be easier to think of solutions when such realities are kept in mind."—George F. Kennan (in the Introduction)

The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect

Europe

P076 - BROOKINGS INST

Memoirs 1925-1950

Leaders & Notable People

Atlantic-Little, Brown, & Co.

Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol. 2: The Decision to Intervene (Classic Reprint)

The Long Telegram: A 1946 Call for Containment of the Soviet Union

"(while Soviet power was) impervious to the logic of reason, it was highly sensitive to the logic of force." -The Long Telegram, George F. Kennan (1946)\nAlthough the United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, their relationship soon changed after the war. In February 1946, the US Moscow embassy was asked by the US Treasury why the Soviet Union was not supporting the newly created World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.\nGeorge Kennan, the Chargé at the US Embassy in Moscow, responded by telegram, also explaining his broader views of the Soviets. His extensive response, dubbed The Long Telegram, became the inspiration for the US containment policy. According to this strategy, the United States and its allies needed to contain the Soviet Union by preventing the spread of communism.\nThe Long Telegram offers unique insight in a turning point in the US-Soviet relationship and is a must-read for students of US foreign policy, diplomats, and policymakers.

Americas

Cosimo Classics

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