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Book Cover for: George F. Kennan: An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner), John Lewis Gaddis

George F. Kennan: An American Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

John Lewis Gaddis

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Publish Date: Aug 28th, 2012
  • Pages: 816
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.90in - 1.80lb
  • EAN: 9780143122159
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: • Historical• Modern - 20th Century - General• International Relations - Diplomacy

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About the Author

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan.

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We publish great books. Here are some tweets about them.

"G-MAN is rigorously researched, vividly written... It will long remain the definitive account.” —John Lewis Gaddis, author of George F. Kennan: An American Life Don't miss @beverlygage's monumental new biography of J Edgar Hoover, coming 11/22: https://t.co/ngR228BSIT https://t.co/3SISUaMjlS

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“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition, the one with the erratum on page 116.” Don’t follow me on Facebook because I’m not there.

Newly spotted today: GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis (2012) LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K: J. M. Coetzee (1985) BEYOND A BOUNDARY; C.L.R. James (1963) 2/5 https://t.co/4DNB7VLK88

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