George F. Kennan

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] *Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A New York Times' Notable Book A Financial Times' (London) Best Books of 2011 for History Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the ''Long Telegram'' and the ''X Article,'' which set forward the strategy of containment that would define US policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era.