EBOOK MAYERS:GEO KENNAN & US FOREIGN P

Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of        George Kennan examines his participation in the process of making foreign policy and        interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical        framework. He presents an engaging and lucid account of Kennan's training; his rise        to prominence during the late 1940s and his policy failures; and his later role as        critic of America's external policy, advocate of detente with the Soviet Union, and        proponent of nuclear arms limitation. Mayers also explores Kennan's complicated        relationships with such prominent political figures and analysts of his time as Dean        Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and Walter Lippmann.