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George F. Kennan: An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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ISBN10: 0143122150
ISBN13: 9780143122159
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Aug 28 2012
Pages: 816
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780143122159
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Aug 28 2012
Pages: 816
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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 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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