George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy

One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government''s chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War. Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers'' fascinating life of George Kennan examines his high-level partic...