220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F. Kennan (1904–2005) devised a way to resist the Soviet Union's attempt to conquer the world for Communism. That way was to go to the brink of war to prevent war. His idea was first expressed in his famous Long Telegram from Moscow on February 22, 1946. It took genius to see a wartime ally as a dangerous adversary, and to convince the American... Read more
Introduction: A Strategic Life
1 Lonely
2 The Professional
3 Containment: The Idea
4 Containment: The Policy Planning Staff Executes
5 Containment: The CIA Executes
6 CIA: A Larger Context
7 Doubles
8 Containment on Second Thought
9 Embassies
10 Scholar
11 Presbyterian Saint
12 Public Intellectual
13 Consummation
14 Ecce Homo
15 After Kennan
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David Felix
