George F. Kennan

• The same Kissinger who calls Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life "as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging, and exasperating American public servants" once asked Gaddis to write his own biography.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

Throw in Henry Kissinger on George F. Kennan in the lead review, a lengthy and serious essay that represents critical writing as event, and it's a winning mix.

Steve Kettmann: How is the New York Times Book Review Doing? Steve Kettmann 2011

TD: In the book, I quote one of the great sages of Cold War history, George F. Kennan, who said, "huge stockpiles of poisonous nuclear wastes ... are to be dumped upon our descendants, who will curse us for saddling them with so dangerous and almost insoluble a problem."

James M. Russell: The Road From Fukushima to Nuclear Abolition James M. Russell 2011

It's no judgment against Gaddis' George F. Kennan: An American Life to suggest that now, after years of dancing around each other, its author and its reviewer have learned to make use of each other, as they are doing here now.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

• The same Kissinger who calls Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life "as close to the final word as possible on one of the most important, complex, moving, challenging, and exasperating American public servants" once asked Gaddis to write his own biography.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

TD: In the book, I quote one of the great sages of Cold War history, George F. Kennan, who said, "huge stockpiles of poisonous nuclear wastes ... are to be dumped upon our descendants, who will curse us for saddling them with so dangerous and almost insoluble a problem."

James M. Russell: The Road From Fukushima to Nuclear Abolition James M. Russell 2011

Now, at last, we have "George F. Kennan: An American Life," a chronicle that makes the most of its abundant sources and proves worthy of its subject.

Uncontainable Alonzo L. Hamby 2011

TD: In the book, I quote one of the great sages of Cold War history, George F. Kennan, who said, "huge stockpiles of poisonous nuclear wastes ... are to be dumped upon our descendants, who will curse us for saddling them with so dangerous and almost insoluble a problem."

James M. Russell: The Road From Fukushima to Nuclear Abolition James M. Russell 2011

It's no judgment against Gaddis' George F. Kennan: An American Life to suggest that now, after years of dancing around each other, its author and its reviewer have learned to make use of each other, as they are doing here now.

Jim Sleeper: Henry Kissinger's Grand Strategy Takes a New Turn at Yale Jim Sleeper 2011

He befriended George F. Kennan, the second-ranking diplomat at the U.S.

Robert C. Tucker, 92, dies; scholar of Soviet-era politics and history 2010