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MEMOIRS 1925-1950

1 review
George F. Kennan

Little, Brown & Co., 1967

History and lessons from US diplomatic relations, 1925-50
George F. Kennan's Memoirs: 1925-1950 provide a fascinating personal and diplomatic history of these years based on his experience at the center of many of the most important events during his quarter century of diplomatic service. This history is interspersed with numerous insights from his philosophy of how US foreign policy should be formulated that are quite applicable today. Finally, ...

E. H. Harriman: A Biography, Volume II
George Kennan

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.

E. H. Harriman: A Biography, Volume I
George Kennan

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922

Illustrated with black-and-white prints/photographs and fold-out map.

Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival

4 reviews
George Kennan

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Amazing story
This book is the fascinating travel journal of George Kennan(1845-1924) who was employed by the Russo-American Telegraph company to explore Eastern Siberia in 1865. Leaving from San Francisco in July 1865 Mr. Kennan and three other men set out for Petropavlovski in Kamchatka. From there they began a march to the northwest, meeting the Sea of Okhotsk and then detouring West for a while until ...

American Diplomacy (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)

7 reviews
George F. Kennan

University Of Chicago Press, 1985

A misleading title covers a gem
The original title of this book, American Diplomacy 1900-1950, is misleading. It implies that this is a study of American diplomacy between the two dates. Wrong. The book is split into two parts. The first part is based on a series of lectures given by Kennan. Each talk looks at a specific event (Spanish American War, WWI or WWII) and draws a general lesson from that event that can be applied ...

Memoirs (George F. Kennan Memoirs)

7 reviews
George F. Kennan

Pantheon, 1983

A must-read for anyone involved in foreign affairs
In a very different period of time, I have travelled to (or lived in) almost all the places described in these memoirs. Furthermore, I have confronted - a generation or so removed - many similar anecdotes, characters and bureaucratic missteps. This book has a ring of authenticity that is striking. It describes the ordinary and then shifts smoothly to the momentous. I have not found anything else ...

Sketches from a Life

3 reviews
George Frost Kennan

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

He had an interesting life, and the book shows it
I guess if you want to write a book on sketches of your life, you've got to have lived an interesting one. And Mr Kennan did. He lived most of his adult life abroad, mostly in Europe, with a focus in the Eastern part. This allows him to give a nice perspective of life in the Old World versus America. Also, because he lived to be 100, he can give a very good perspective timewise (he wrote the ...

George F. Kennan: Memoirs, 1950-1963

2 reviews
George F. Kennan

Pantheon, 1983

George F. Kennan's later memoirs, a bit more briefly.
Having just finished this book, I came to Amazon to both look for his 1925-1950 memoirs, and to see if I could glean anything from reviews of the later volume. Just as brevity is said to be the soul of wit, a succinct review may often serve to advise the curious as to a volume of possible interest more efficiently than an interminable panegyric, so a few points, seriatim: Kennan wrote well; ...

Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy

3 reviews
George Frost Kennan

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1994

Kennan proposes a "supreme court" for public policy
George F. Kennan, a former ambassador to the Soviet Union, looks back at the 20th century and concludes that the US needs a group of senior advisors to guide US policy. The Council, as he calls it, would be appointed by the President from a list of nominated names, perhaps two from each state. This list would be a role of honor -- just being nominated would be considered to be an honor ...

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence

2 reviews
George Frost Kennan, John Lukacs

University of Missouri Press, 1997

Kennan: The War Years
This is not the typical work of diplomatic history, as it comprises a series of letters between George Kennan and historian John Lukacs in the mid-1990s. In his well-written and informative introduction Lucaks lays out his aim in writings the books, which is to chart Kennans's views on the Soviet Union prior to his writing of the Long Telegram and the Foreign Affairs article "Sources of Soviet ...

The Marquis De Custine and His Russia in 1839

1 review
George Frost Kennan

Princeton Univ Pr, 1971

A good summary of the life and work
This is a tiny book that talks about a very large one. This book is summarized into a foreward in many reprintings of Custine, and if you have read that, this is unnecessary. It's a good study of Custine's life, however by a biased source.

Russia & the West Under Lenin & Stalin

1 review
George F. Kennan

Hutchinson, 1961

Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917-1950
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George F. Kennan, provides a magnificent, sweeping view of the diplomatic history of the first half of the 20th Century. The book is based on lectures Kennan delivered at Oxford and Harvard between 1957 and 1960 and is written in a relaxed, conversational style. One can almost imaging him holding forth over a glass of port after dinner. This book ...

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