Description
Book SynopsisPresented with an introduction by John Lukacs, the letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan's thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political-and spiritual-philosophies that both authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century.
Trade Review"A fascinating volume. . . . The book poses anew, in an admirably lean and accessible way, a question that has long swirled around Kennan: What were the intellectual underpinnings of his insistence on a restrained, 'realist' foreign policy that shunned bold efforts to remake the world in the American image?" *
New York Times *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I The Cold War Begins: Containment or Liberation
Letters, 1952-1954
II The Cold War at Its Peak: The Soviet Union Redux
Letters, 1954-1964
III How History Should Be Written
Letters, 1964-1983
IV The Evil Empire and the End of the Cold War
Letters, 1983-1988
V The End of an Age: American Hegemony
Letters, 1988-2004
Calendar of the Letters
Index
