Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

Book Overview

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs's surprise, he received a personal reply from Kennan.

So began an exchange of letters that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224253X
• ISBN13: 9780812242539
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"