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George Frost Kennan

Kennan Kvetches

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Discussed in this essay: The Kennan Diaries, by George F. Kennan, edited by Frank Costigliola. W. W. Norton. 688 pages. $39.95. Pity the man’s poor wife. To peruse this generous selection from…

A Model Married Man

by George Frost Kennan,

From a 1933 diary entry by George Kennan (1904–2005), with the heading “January, Riga.” Kennan was working for the State Department at the time, in a diplomatic post in Latvia.…

Art and antiques

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Learning to live without a Soviet threat

Nuclear bookshelf

by Michael Eliot Howard,

A spring bouquet of books about the unthinkable

George Kennan and the students

by Norman Podhoretz,

Books in brief

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

Rebuilding the foreign service

by James L. (James Lucian) McCamy,

The making of a writer

by Harper’s Staff,

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