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Around the Cragged Hill
George F. Kennan
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Paperback. "[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 Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
"I have attempted to take the high ground,” writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broader dimensions of things—the ones that would still be visible and significant in future decades." Against the background of a century of wars, revolution, and uneasy peace, Mr. Kennan advances his thoughts on a broad front: how the individual's quest for power can transform a government into a confusion of ambition, rivalry, and suspicion; how a nation's size can create barriers between the rulers and the ruled; why America must first set its own house in ... Read more
"I have attempted to take the high ground,” writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broader dimensions of things—the ones that would still be visible and significant in future decades." Against the background of a century of wars, revolution, and uneasy peace, Mr. Kennan advances his thoughts on a broad front: how the individual's quest for power can transform a government into a confusion of ambition, rivalry, and suspicion; how a nation's size can create barriers between the rulers and the ruled; why America must first set its own house in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780393311457
SKU
V9780393311457
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About George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan was America’s most acclaimed Cold War diplomat as well as a prize-winning historian and author.
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