George Kennan is considered a singular figure in U.S. diplomatic history. In a life that spanned 101 years—from the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt to that of George W. Bush—he won the Pulitzer and ...
Sign up to receive our latest updates! When Kissinger became national security adviser and later secretary of state, Kennan occasionally traveled to Washington at ...
Jordan Michael Smith has reviewed Gaddis’ George F. Kennan in the new issue of TAC. It’s a very good review, and Smith makes several valuable observations about how Gaddis and Kennan increasingly ...
At 15, Kennan was your typical teenager and then one day things started to change. She started to experience headaches, fatigue--all bad enough to raise concerns. Her parents took her to the doctor.
On Friday morning on the Senate floor, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona argued passionately against Senate ratification of New START. This treaty—a follow-up to different versions of START signed by George ...
“It isn’t easy being George Kennan,” a neighbor of the diplomat reports, some 600 pages into John Lewis Gaddis’s new biography. Indeed it wasn’t: Kennan was a curmudgeon too old for his times even in ...
Henry Kissinger has publicly described two things as brilliant recently: Herman Cain’s smoking ad, and George Kennan’s life. The former comment came during a meeting early this month, the latter in an ...
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