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George F. Kennan Spiral-Bound | 2012-08-28

John Lewis Gaddis

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Three decades in the making, the "magisterial" (Henry Kissinger, The New York Times Book Review) biography of America's most influential Cold War strategist

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year

Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, this extraordinary biography delves into the mind of the brilliant diplomat who shaped U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union for decades. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 816 pages
ISBN-10: 0143122150
Item Weight: 1.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.7 x 8.3 inches
"This may be the most long-awaited single volume biography ever. . . . An epic work--probing, engrossing, occasionally revelatory--but also a well-timed one."--The New York Times

"A triumph of both scholarship and narrative writing."--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan.