George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan was America’s most acclaimed Cold War diplomat as well as a prize-winning historian and author.

George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan was America’s most acclaimed Cold War diplomat as well as a prize-winning historian and author.

Books by George F. Kennan

  • The Kennan Diaries

    George F. Kennan, Frank Costigliola

    Hardback, 2014

    A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat.
  • The Kennan Diaries

    George F. Kennan, Frank Costigliola

    E Book, 2014

    A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat.
  • An American Family: The Kennans

    George F. Kennan

    Hardback, 2001

    "One of the wisest men in American public life today." —James Chace
  • Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: The Decision to Intervene

    George F. Kennan

    2, Paperback, 1985

    “As with the first volume, an extraordinarily complex story is developed with great skill, scholarship and reflective analysis.” —Foreign Affairs
  • Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback, 1994

    “[Kennan] comes to us…as ambassador of a generation nearly gone and a conservatism so responsible, dutiful and so long extinct it may look revolutionary….As ever, Kennan in the present book has...
  • At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback, 1997

    “Thoughtful critiques of many of the major issues confronting American foreign policymakers in the 1980s and early ‘90s. . . .Kennan’s voice is unique, tempered by three decades of life in...
  • Sketches from a Life

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback, 2000

    Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic...
  • Sketches from a Life

    George F. Kennan

    E Book

    Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic...
  • Realities of American Foreign Policy

    George F. Kennan

    Paperback, 1966

  • Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920: Russia Leaves the War

    George F. Kennan

    1, Paperback, 1984

    “Mr. Kennan has developed a true scholar’s integrity; and he writes with delightful elegance. . . . The book is a pleasure to read, [even] apart from the importance of its theme.” —A.J.P. Taylor