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Kennan, George F.
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Kennan, George F. (1904–2005) diplomat, historian, and foreign policy critic, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kennan was the chief architect of America's
Cold War strategy of
containment. As director of the policy planning staff in the
State Department (1947–50), Kennan advocated limiting the spread of Communism through political and economic measures, such as the
Marshall Plan, rather than by military means such as
NATO and the
hydrogen bomb. He supported U.S. entry in the
Korean War, but opposed crossing the 38th parallel. Although Kennan left the State Department in 1950 because of dissent with the policies of secretary of state
Dean Acheson, he continued to have a strong, if less direct, influence on U.S. foreign policy through a career as a distinguished historian and commentator with a recognized expertise on the Soviet Union.
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George Kennan: A Study in Character.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; George Kennan: A Study in Character. By John Lukacs...the highlights of diplomat-scholar George Kennan's remarkable life and character. The...but instead, "a biographical study of George Kennan's character" (8). For John Lukacs...
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GEORGE KENNAN DIES AT 101; DEVISED COLD WAR POLICY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; George F. Kennan, the diplomat who helped forge US foreign...of US diplomacy for four decades. "George Kennan came as close to authoring the diplomatic...Union. A distant relation, also named George Kennan, had written of Russia in the 1890s...
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George Kennan and the Challenge of Siberia.
Magazine article from: Demokratizatsiya; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to be the adventurous traveler George Kennan, a cousin twice removed of the twentieth-century George F. Kennan, American ambassador to Stalin...first great authority on Russia. George Kennan, the elder, first intrigued...
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Diplomat, Historian George Kennan Dies
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...PRINCETON, N.J. Former Ambassador George F. Kennan testifies before the Senate Foreign...Pulitzer Prize-winning historian George F. Kennan, who gave the name "containment...1904, in Milwaukee. An uncle, George Kennan, was an expert on Czarist Russia...
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Profile: Remembering George Kennan, who died this past Thursday at the age of 101
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 3/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...20-2005 Profile: Remembering George Kennan, who died this past Thursday...PM SHEILAH KAST, host: When George Kennan died this past Thursday night...collapse of the Soviet Union, George Kennan wrote a book entitled "Around...
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Literary Ambassador.(George Kennan: A Writing Life)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 12/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; [George Kennan: A Writing Life, Lee Congdon, ISI...The Sources of Soviet Conduct," George Frost Kennan (under the now famous pseudonym Mr...was, as Lee Congdon makes clear in George Kennan: A Writing Life, a literary one...
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Never a man for causes.(George Kennan: A Study in Character)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; George Kennan: A Study in Character by John Lukacs...For a few years, from 1946 to 1949, George Frost Kennan was at the center of world events...now given us the short, penetrating George Kennan: A Study in Character. Lukacs and...
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George Kennan & the Heart of a Wise Man; The Diplomat's `Sketches' of a Life Spent Learning
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/4/1989; ; 700+ words
; George Kennan reports that an old friend called him...advance copy of "Sketches From a Life," Kennan's new book of diary entries covering...of travel, diplomacy and insight. "George," Kennan says his old friend told him, "I never...
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The Forgotten George Kennan: from Cheerleader to Critic of Tsarist Russia. (Books).(adapted from 'Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan,')(Biography)
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...been the posthumous misfortune of George Kennan (1845-1924), the American...aware that the elder and forgotten George Kennan did not simply chronicle Russian...policy screen, the forgotten George Kennan may deservedly be remembered afresh...
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REMARKS ON THE OCCASION OF GEORGE KENNAN'S CENTENARY BIRTHDAY
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 2/20/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to share in this celebration of George Kennan's centenary birthday. My admiration...people. (Laughter.) However George Kennan has made it to 100 years, we...to interpret such events. But George Kennan has been all three: witness to...
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Excerpt from "American Diplomacy" (1947, by George Kennan)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...DIPLOMACY" (1947, by George Kennan) In 1947, with the Cold...an article written by George Kennan. Kennan, a U.S. diplomat...the advice of his boss, George Marshall, that "planners...known as "containment." Kennan claimed that the behavior...
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George F. Kennan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George F. Kennan Combining the talents of the diplomat with the wisdom of the scholar, George F. Kennan (born 1904) left a powerful impression...by his "Long Telegram" of 1946, George Frost Kennan was one of many first-rate Foreign...
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George Kennan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Kennan 1845-1924, American authority on Siberia, b. Norwalk, Ohio. In 1864 he made the first of his journeys to East Asia as an...
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George Frost Kennan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Frost Kennan 1904-2005, U.S. diplomat and historian, b. Milwaukee, Wis...in the government who emphasized the military aspects of containment. Kennan was appointed ambassador to the USSR in 1952, but was recalled at the...
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Kennan, George F.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Kennan, George F. (1904–2005), diplomat...Interpretations .] Bibliography David Mayers , George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy , 1988. Wilson D. Miscamble , George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign...
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