The Hawk and the Dove is a composite biography told through the story of Paul Nitze’s and George Kennan’s divergent stances on U.S. policy during the Cold War. Each man was a significant figure in the development of policy toward the Soviet Union: Kennan, the diplomat, from 1933, when he was posted to the U.S. embassy in Moscow; Nitze, the military and strategic planner, fr (...)
October 23, 2009
Books
Odd Couple
The Hawk and the DovePaul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold WarNicholas ThompsonHenry Holt, $27.50, 416 pp.
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