Books by George F. Kennan

"As with the first volume, an extraordinarily complex story is developed with great skill, scholarship and reflective analysis." -Foreign Affairs

Offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power whose claims to rightness often spill over into self-righteousness, whose ambitions conflict with power realities, whose judgmentalism precludes the interests of other states, and whose domestic politics frequently prevent prudent policies and result in overstretch.

"[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 fulfilled his responsibility admirably." -Chicago Tribune

"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 Stalinist Europe and informed by a deep, unmatched knowledge of Russia's people and history." -Matthew DallekBoston Book Review