George F. Kennan: An American Life

By John Lewis Gaddis. Publisher: Penguin

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This biography, with its documentary thoroughness and lucidity about its enigmatic, fragile subject, must stand as the definitive portrait of the uniquely influential diplomat and historian.

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9781594203121

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