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George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist. By Richard L. Russell. (Westport and London: Praeger, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 178. $55.00.)

The author of this book has taken on the daunting task of explicating the strategic thought of George F. Kennan, one of this century's most prolific political realists. Although Richard L. Russell admits that Kennan is also one of the most studied realists, he avers that much of the extant literature on Ke...