George F. Kennan: An American Life - Couverture souple

Gaddis, John Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143122150 ISBN 13 : 9780143122159

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143122150
• ISBN 13: 9780143122159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 816
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