A review by pearl35
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

4.0

Thirty years of work, with Gaddis able to interview Kennan and have access to intimate diaries (which Kennan kept meticulously, turning his analytic abilities often on himself, like his obsession with suicide pills, or deep impatience) make this an unusually frank and personality-driven biography with fully contextualized crucial events in 20th century foreign policy.