TY - BOOK AU - Gaddis,John Lewis TI - George F. Kennan: an American life SN - 9780143122159 AV - B E 748 K34G 2011 U1 - 327.730092 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Kennan, George F. KW - Política mundial KW - 1945-1989 KW - Guerra Fría KW - Historia diplomática KW - Diplomáticos KW - Estados Unidos KW - Biografía KW - World politics KW - Cold War KW - Diplomatic history KW - Diplomats KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Ambassadors KW - Foreign relations KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Soviet Union N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [703]-749, [751]-762) and index; Childhood : 1904-1921 -- Princeton : 1921-1925 -- The Foreign Service : 1925-1931 -- Marriage-- and Moscow : 1931-1933 -- The origins of Soviet-American relations : 1933-1936 -- Rediscovering America : 1936-1938 -- Czechoslovakia and Germany : 1938-1941 -- The United States at war : 1941-1944 -- Back in the U.S.S.R. : 1944-1945 -- A very long telegram : 1945-1946 -- A grand strategic education : 1946 -- Mr. X : 1947 -- Policy planner : 1947-1948 -- Policy dissenter : 1948 -- Reprieve : 1949 -- Disengagement : 1950 -- Public figure, private doubts : 1950-1951 -- Mr. Ambassador : 1952 -- Finding a niche : 1953-1955 -- A rare possibility of usefulness : 1955-1958 -- Kennedy and Yugoslavia : 1958-1963 -- Counter-cultural critic : 1963-1968 -- Prophet of the Apocalypse : 1968-1980 -- A precarious vindication : 1980-1990 -- Last things : 1991-2005 N2 - A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself ER -