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Title: American Diplomacy by George Frost Kennan ISBN: 0-226-43147-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: March, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Canonical Foreign Policy
Comment: Mr. Kennan is a fine example of the best in American thought. Europeans who complain that U.S. policymakers are not thoughtful about the world would do well to read this book. Fantastic.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Interesting Perspectives
Comment: This book is a collection of speeches by George F. Kennan made during the Cold War. For those unfamiliar with the author, he is the author of the famous "X" article, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, which served as the intellectual foundation of the Containment Doctrine.
Although dated, especially since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, this short book provides a useful look not only at the ideas of one of our most eminent Cold War thinkers, but also of the atmosphere and conditions of the period.
Rating: 3
Summary: American Diplomacy, A Croak of Slander
Comment: Reading the book titled American Diplomacy, will be summed up in the following five pages. This was the first book that I have read by George F. Kennan. Looking at the beginning of this book, I can see that it is very well organized in a manner that you can follow the book along well. I am going to describe the following chapters in the following paragraphs. In the Forward, Kennan gives a good reason for why he wrote this book. Which also this is what I believe is the only part of the whole book that is easy to understand. Kennan explains the Thesis of this book the best in the forward. I believe that it would be easier to understand Kennan giving his lecture notes about what he put in this book, then by reading the book. Therefore, he could emphasis what he means in the book better by explaining it easier in person. He acknowledges his thanks to Charles R. Walgreen's Foundation for the Study of American Institutions, for its help on providing his lecture information. Kennan knows what is going on in this country when he states the opinion, "A half century ago people in this country had a sense of security vis-à-vis their world environment such as I suppose no people had ever had since the days of the Roman Empire. Today that pattern is almost reversed -our national consciousness is dominated at present by a sense of insecurity greater even then that of many of the peoples of western Europe who stand closer to, and in a position far more vulnerable to, those things that are the main source of our concern." I do agree with him on how he says that we are more insecure. We did show other countries in the earlier years, that we were the biggest and best country around, and then when countries need us in the 1950's, we show that we are insecure to the other countries. To summarize this chapter on "Mr. Hippisley And The Open Door" I would have to say that it was a lot easier to understand it then the first chapter of this book. The only thing that Kennan tended to do, which I did not like is get off the subject of what he was talking about and moved on the next subject. He just did not have much to say about this particular topic, so I believe that is why he threw in those extra things about the people of who the "Open Door" policy had effected. In edition, I have noticed how Kennan likes to go and use these very hard words to describe thing, and I mean that these are the types of words that you have trouble pronouncing and knowing the definition of. To summarize the whole book I would have to say that it was not an enjoying time of reading this. I struggled through many of the pages and had to re-read many things over again that I did not understand the first time I reading it. He goes through this book exactly how he produced his lectures to people, which it would be a lot easier to understand if he was lecturing this to me in person, instead of reading the book. Starting out in the beginning by telling all the wrong things that American's have done in the past, he finishes up the book, with the final chapter by saying that we have done things that we have done right. This totally changes the book, from starting out by protesting against things we have done, to agreeing to things that we have done. On a scale of one being the lowest and ten being the highest, I would have to give this book a six. This was appropriate for a class like this, but not for a Graduate class. I still would not recommend this book to no one.
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Title: Promised Land, Crusader State : The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 by Walter McDougall ISBN: 0395901324 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0195030974 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams ISBN: 0393304930 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence by John Lukacs, George Frost Kennan ISBN: 0826211097 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy by Michael H. Hunt ISBN: 0300043694 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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