American Diplomacy

These lectures on American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century are “a classic foreign policy text” ( Washington Post Book World ). For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan’s American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan 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 ambitio