George Frost Kennan (1904-2005)
(see also US & Soviet Union, Cold War, American Empire & Militarization of Foreign Policy)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
If Kennan Had Prevailed. James Carroll, Boston Globe (3/22/05).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bucklin, Steven J. Realism & American Foreign Policy: Wilsonians & the Kennan-Morgenthau Thesis (Westport CT: Praeger, 2001).
Deibel, Terry L. & John Lewis Gaddis. Containing the Soviet Union: A Critique of US Policy (Washington: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1987).
Franklin, Laurel F. George F. Kennan: An Annotated Bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1997).
Gelman, Barton D. Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power (NY: Praeger, 1984).
Harper, John Lamberton. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan & Dean G. Acheson (NY: Cambridge, 1994).
Hertz, Martin F. (ed.) Decline of the West? George F. Kennan & His Critics (Washington: Georgetown U., 1978).
Jensen, Kenneth M. & Elizabeth P. Faulkner (eds.) Morality & Foreign Policy Microform: Realpolitik Dissected (Washington: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1991).
Kennan, George F. American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1951). Dissects "crusader" mentality that afflicts us still today.
__________. Realities of American Foreign Policy [1954] (NY: Norton, 1966).
__________. Russia, the Atom & the West (London: Oxford, 1958).
__________. Russia & the West under Lenin & Stalin (London: Hutchinson, 1961).
__________. Memoirs, 1925-1950 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961).
__________. The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age (NY: Pantheon, 1983).
__________. The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia & the Coming of the First World War (NY: Pantheon, 1984).
__________. George Kennan on NATO, Nuclear War & the Soviet Threat (ed. Philip Brainthwaite; Evesham: West Midlands CND Sales, 1985).
__________. Sketches from a Life (NY: Pantheon, 1989).
__________. Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal & Political Philosophy (NY: W.W. Norton, 1993).
__________. At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995 (NY: Norton, 1996).
__________. An American Family: The Kennans, the First Three Generations (NY: Norton, 2000).
Mayers, David. George Kennan & the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy (NY: Oxford, 1988).
Miscamble, Wilson D. George F. Kennan & the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 (Princeton NJ: Princeton U., 1992).
Russell, Richard L. George F. Kennan's Strategic Thought: The Making of an American Political Realist (Westport CT: Praeger, 1999).
Stephanson, Anders. Kennan & the Art of Foreign Policy (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1989).