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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- SKU
- 0016
- ISBN
- 9780805081428
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805081429
ISBN-13
9780805081428
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72465934
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hawk and the Dove : Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, International Relations / Arms Control, Modern / 20th Century, International Relations / General, Political, Security (National & International)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
26.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-009225
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The key to understanding modern American foreign policy is appreciating the complex 60-year friendship between George Kennan and Paul Nitze. Nicholas Thompson brilliantly captures their divergent personalities, clashing politics, and intellectual bonding. It is an insightful and important tale, but also a colorful and fascinating one-an intellectual buddy movie with enormous historical resonance."-Walter Isaacson "With clarity and vigor, Nicholas Thompson has given us an engaging and insightful account of one of the great friendships of the modern age, the personal bond between Paul Nitze and George Kennan that illuminates the epochal stakes of the Cold War. This is a terrific book."-Jon Meacham "George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. Nick Thompson's is a fine account of that relationship, carefully researched, beautifully written, and evocatively suggestive of how much we have lost because such civility has become so rare."-John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University , "The book is brimming with fascinating revelations about the men and the harrowing events they steered through." -The New York Times "In this important and astute new study, Nitze emerges as a driven patriot and Kennan as a darkly conflicted and prophetic one."-The Washington Post "Paul Nitze and George Kennan were the yin and yang of American foreign policy. They were also the only figures deeply involved in the Cold War from beginning to end, and so they make ideal focal points for Nicholas Thompson's lively and illuminating book." -Newsweek "Few men did more to shape postwar U.S. Foreign policy than Paul Nitze and George Kennan. In tracing their dueling visions of America's role in the world, Nicholas Thompson provides a white-knuckle glimpse inside the 20th century's most dangerous moments." -Time Magazine "Thoroughly engrossing … Thompson succeeds admirably in blending biography and intellectual history, painting colorful portraits of complicated men who embodied conflicting strains of American thinking about foreign policy." -The New York Times Book Review "The Hawk and the Dove does an inspired job of telling the story of the Cold War through the careers of two of its most interesting and important figures, who were not only present at the creation, but were each a witness-and, in Nitze's case, a participant-in its end." -The Washington Monthly "Gripping, stirring … Thompson has delivered a book that's not just a labor of love for a grandfather; it's a vindication of a tradition of civic-republican comity that can't be coerced but is quietly stronger, even in this polarizing, frightening time, than anything the republic's noisier claimants have to offer." -Talking Points Memo Cafe "A very good new book." -The National Review "A lifetime of documentation combined with a personal narrative create a compelling story of two men who shared a lifetime of conflict and camaraderie."-The Daily Beast "[An] outstanding dual biography … Excellent insights into these men and their roles in the era they helped shape." -Booklist "The key to understanding modern American foreign policy is appreciating the complex 60-year friendship between George Kennan and Paul Nitze. Nicholas Thompson brilliantly captures their divergent personalities, clashing politics, and intellectual bonding. It is an insightful and important tale, but also a colorful and fascinating one-an intellectual buddy movie with enormous historical resonance."-Walter Isaacson "With clarity and vigor, Nicholas Thompson has given us an engaging and insightful account of one of the great friendships of the modern age, the personal bond between Paul Nitze and George Kennan that illuminates the epochal stakes of the Cold War. This is a terrific book."-Jon Meacham "George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed its course over almost half a century, and they argued with each other constantly while it was going on. But they maintained throughout a remarkable friendship, demonstrating-as few others in our time have-that it is possible to differ with civility. N
Dewey Decimal
973.92
Synopsis
A brilliant and revealing profile of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era, this masterly double biography tells the story of Paul Nitze--the hawk--and George Kennan--the dove--and their influences on national policy for nearly half a century., A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era-written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning-and surviving-that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic political battles that spanned decades. Yet despite their very different views, Paul Nitze and George Kennan dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained good friends all their lives. In this masterly double biography, Nicholas Thompson brings Nitze and Kennan to vivid life. Nitze-the hawk-was a consummate insider who believed that the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one. More than any other American, he was responsible for the arms race. Kennan-the dove-was a diplomat turned academic whose famous "X article" persuasively argued that we should contain the Soviet Union while waiting for it to collapse from within. For forty years, he exercised more influence on foreign affairs than any other private citizen. As he weaves a fascinating narrative that follows these two rivals and friends from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, Thompson accomplishes something remarkable: he tells the story of our nation during the most dangerous half century in history.
LC Classification Number
E744.T494 2009
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