Memoirs
George F. Kennan (Author)
Memoirs 1925-1950 published in 1967 covered twenty-five years George Kennan spent in Berlin, in Moscow, in Prague as a foreign Service officer before and during the war, and in Washington as an architect of foreign policy after it. Awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this volume was proclaimed "the single most valuable political book written by an American in the twentieth century." (The New Republic). This long and detailed account of twenty-five years of diplomatic history is written with extraordinary eloquence and lucidity. Mr. Kennan's portraits of Stalin, William Bullitt, Alexander Kirk, Harry Hopkins, General Marshall, Ambassador Harriman and Charles Bohlen are superbly drawn. George Kennan resumed his remarkable narrative in Memoirs 1950-1963, with his temporary retirement from public life and the commencement of his stay at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study as a scholar and public commentator. For its portraits of Truman, Eisenhower, Acheson, Oppenheimer, Tito, McCarthy and others, and for its incisive analysis of the crucial issues of the twentieth century, George Kennan's Memoirs stand as an extraordinary political document as well as a distinguished American biography. The generous excerpts from his journals reveal his sensitivity to human details and his skill at evoking scenes and incidents from his travels in many lands
Print Book, English, 1967
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Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1967
Biography
2 volumes ; 24 cm
9780316488457, 0316488453
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V.1. A personal note
Training for Russia
Moscow and Washington in the 1930s
Prague, 1938-1939
Wartime service in Germany
Portugal and the Azores
The European Advisory Commission
Moscow again, and Poland
Moscow and the victory in Europe
From V-E Day to Potsdam
The long telegram
The National War College
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The X-Article
Japan and MacArthur
The North Atlantic Alliance
Germany
The future of Europe
Last months in Washington
Annexes
Russia: seven years later
Russia's international position at the close of the war with Germany
Excerpts from telegraphic message from Moscow of February 22, 1946
Excerpt from the United States and Russia. V.2. Transition
Korea
The Far East
Re-encounter with America
Russia and the Cold War
The Moscow ambassadorship
Persona non grata
Retirement
"McCarthyism"
The 1957 Reith Lectures
Yugoslavia: the background
Yugoslavia: the conflict
Epilogue
Annex: the Soviet Union and the Atlantic Pact
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."--Title page