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Kennan, George F. Memoirs: 1925-1950 Boston Atlantic Monthly Press 1967 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Peters, Leverett A. & Associates 583 pp., 4 annexes, index. Red boards with faint fade spots. Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear. DJ has 2" chip at top and edgewear and some very small chips at spine and flap ends. Spine slightly sunned. Text is clean and bright.
"This book is the personal and professional record of one of America's most distinguished diplomats, George F. Kennan. This long and detailed account of twenty five years of diplomatic history is written with extraordinary eloquence and lucidity. Mr. Kennan's portraits of Stalin, William Bullitt, Alexander Kirk, Harry Hopkins, General Marshall, Ambassador Harriman and Charles Bohlen are superbly drawn. The generous excerpts from his journals reveal his sensitivity to human details and his skill at evoking scenes and incidents from his travels in many lands. Mr. Kennan never looses the overview. Transcending the personal encounters, the specific events and positions, are his clearly articulated principles for the just government of foreign affairs in a world for which like it or not, we as Americans bear a major responsibility." Price: 8.25 USD
