The Kennan Diaries [Hardcover]

On a hot July afternoon in 1953, George F. Kennan descended the steps of the State Department building as a newly retired man. His career had been tumultuous: early postings in eastern Europe followed by Berlin in 194041 and Moscow in the last year of World War II. In 1946, the forty-two-year-old Kennan authored the Long Telegram, a 5,500-word indictment of the Kremlin that became mandatory reading in Washington. A year later, in an article inA landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, Americas most famous diplomat.