The Kennan Diaries
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
The Kennan Diaries (2014) presents selections from eighty-eight years of diaries kept by George F. Kennan, edited by historian Frank Costigliola. Kennan, architect of the Cold War containment strategy, recorded private thoughts on diplomacy, America, Russia and his own ambitions from the 1920s into old age. The volume shows the gap between the public strategist and the often frustrated private man.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "The Kennan Diaries" edited by Frank Costigliola. Kennan was America's great strategist of containment, which won the Cold War. But these diaries also reveal him to be something very unusual in America. A genuine classical conservative. Plus, as always, he's a beautiful writer.”