George F. Kennan
  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780143122159
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $55.00
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George F. Kennan

An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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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 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.
  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780143122159
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the author

John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary Cold War. He is also the author of numerous books, is the 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.

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