History ofdiplomacy;Dealing with the enemy
外交往事;应敌之策;
George Kennan invented the American post-warpolicy of containment of the Soviet Union. Hisbiography, 30 years in the making, fills in thedetail;
乔治凯南是战后美国对苏遏制政策的始作俑者。他这本耗时30年而成的传记,充满了遏制政策的点点滴滴;
George F. Kennan: An American Life. By John LewisGaddis.
乔治凯南:大国之策 约翰加迪斯著。
Three decades ago George Kennan former American ambassador to Moscow, multilingualdiplomat and conceptualiser of containment, the heart of his country s foreign policytowards the Soviet Unionagreed to allow an American cold-war historian, John LewisGaddis, to serve as his biographer. Kennan had decamped from public service to theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton more than 20 years earlier and was already 78years old. When he began giving Mr Gaddis interviews and stacks of personal papers in 1981,their understanding was that the biography would appear in the presumably not-too-distantfuture after the elder man s passing.
三十年前,乔治凯南前美国驻莫斯科大使,掌握多种语言的外交官,美国对苏外交核心遏制政策的始作俑者同意由美国冷战历史学者约翰加迪斯为其撰写传记。那时,已78岁高龄的乔治凯南,早退出政界在普林斯顿高级研究院从事研究已超过二十个年头。1981年起乔治凯南开始与约翰加迪斯会面并给予后者大堆个人资料,两人商定乔治凯南的传记将在其过世后不久的将来面世。
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