There were two George F. Kennans. The first was the well-known diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia a tough political realist and man of the world who gained fame as the theorist of America s Cold War containment strategy. This was a persona that Kennan adopted in order to carry out his professional responsibilities. The second, largely unknown, but real George Kennan was a writer and aesthete a shy, lonely man who felt alienated from both his country and his times, and a man who made major ...
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There were two George F. Kennans. The first was the well-known diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia a tough political realist and man of the world who gained fame as the theorist of America s Cold War containment strategy. This was a persona that Kennan adopted in order to carry out his professional responsibilities. The second, largely unknown, but real George Kennan was a writer and aesthete a shy, lonely man who felt alienated from both his country and his times, and a man who made major contributions to American literature. Thus argues Lee Congdon in "George Kennan: A Writing Life," a groundbreaking study of Kennan s life and thought. Congdon narrates Kennan s legendary work in the foreign service, his later career as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and the schools of thought to which he made significant contributions: political realism, antidemocratic social and political criticism, Spenglerian gloom, and conservative cultural analysis. Congdon concludes that notwithstanding his great accomplishments as a diplomat and geopolitical strategist, Kennan merits consideration above all else as an original and penetrating American writer."
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