The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Thompson, Nicholas

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312658861)

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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Thompson, Nicholas

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

$28.00
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Thompson, Nicholas

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

$28.00
Format: Paperback
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Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends.

Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who believed the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one. George Kennan 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. A masterly double biography, 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 (The Washington Monthly).

Author: Nicholas Thompson
ISBN-10: 0312658869
ISBN-13: 9780312658861
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2010
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/31/2010 pg. 24
By Nicholas Thompson
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Nicholas Thompson is an editor at Wired magazine, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and a regular contributor to CNN. He has written articles for The New York Times, The Washington Post and numerous other publications. A grandson of Paul Nitze's, he lives in New York City with his wife and son.

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