George F. Kennan : an American life

by John Lewis Gaddis

Reith lectures

  Brodie, Bernard

  The Absolute Weapon

  Brown, Neill S.

  Brown, Philip M.

  Bruce, David

  Brussels Treaty (1948)

  Bryant, Louise

  Bryce, James

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew

  Buchwald, Art

  Buffett, Warren

  Bulgakov, Valentin Fedorovich

  Bulganin, Nikolay

  Bull, Harold

  Bullitt, William C.

  as ambassador to France

  as ambassador to Soviet Union

  Kennan’s letters to

  “swan song” dispatch of

  Bundy, Mary Acheson

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Bundy, William P. “Bill,”

  Burgard, Lavere

  Burlingham, C. C.

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Butler, George

  Butterfield, Herbert

  Butterworth, W. Walton

  Byrnes, James F.

  Cabot, John Moors

  Calvin, John

  Canada:

  and atomic bomb

  Kennan’s speeches in

  and NATO

  Canadian Geographical Journal

  Carlson, Harry

  Carnegie Corporation

  Carr, Wilbur J.

  Carter, Jimmy

  Casablanca conference (1943)

  Cassels, Louis

  Castle, William R., Jr.

  Castro, Fidel

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Chekhov, Anton

  The Cherry Orchard

  The Steppe

  Chekhov Publishing House

  Chernenko, Konstantin

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chicago Sun-Times

  China

  and atomic bomb

  civil war in

  communist

  Kennan’s writings on

  and Korea

  and McCarthyism

  and Nixon

  PPS reports on

  and Soviet Union

  and Taiwan

  Tiananmen Square unrest

  and Tito

  and UN

  White Paper on

  China Aid Act (1948)

  China hands

  China Lobby

  Christopher, Warren M.

  Chuikov, V. I.

  Churchill, Winston

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

  covert activities of

  cyanide pills from

  formation of

  Kennan as advisor to

  and Russian exiles

  Clausewitz, Carl von

  Clay, Lucius D.

  Clayton, William L.

  Cleveland, Grover

  Clifford, Clark

  Clinton, Bill

  Clubb, O. Edmund

  Coffin, William Sloane

  Colby, Bainbridge

  Cold War:

  and atomic bomb

  beginning of

  Berlin blockade

  Berlin tensions in

  Berlin Wall in

  concept of

  Cold War: (cont.)

  and containment

  and détente

  and déterrence

  and disengagement

  and domino theory

  ending

  and iron curtain

  “liberation” in

  and long telegram

  and McCarthyism

  and minimum deterrence

  mutually assured destruction (MAD) in

  “New Look” in

  “no first use” strategy

  and nuclear capability

  and nuclear moratorium/control

  revisionist histories of

  and Task Force A

  and U.S. national security

  as war of attrition

  world divided in

  and “X” article

  and zero option

  Cole, Felix

  Coleman, F. W. B.

  Committee on East-West Accord

  Committee on Present Danger

  Conant, James B.

  Congress for Cultural Freedom

  Conrad, Joseph, Under Western Skies

  Cooke, Alistair

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Corrigan, Frank P.

  Cory, Thomas J.

  Council of Economic Advisers

  Council of Foreign Ministers

  Council on Foreign Relations

  Cousins, Norman

  Craig, Gordon A.

  Crawford, Angus MacDonald

  Crawford, William A.

  Crossman, Richard

  Cuba:

  Bay of Pigs

  and Kennedy administration

  Soviet missile crisis

  Cumming, Hugh

  Custine, Astolphe Louis Léonor, Marquis de

  Czechoslovakia:

  Bohemia and Moravia

  founding of

  and Germany

  Kennan’s posting to Prague

  resistance movements in

  and Slovak independence

  and Soviet Union

  Sudetenland in

  U.S. abandonment of

  Czech Republic

  Daladier, Édouard

  Dartmouth College

  Davies, John Paton

  and China

  and Cold War

  investigations of

  and Korea

  and Policy Planning Staff

  Davies, Joseph E.

  Davies, Patricia

  Davies, Richard

  Dawson, William

  Day After, The (TV)

  Delany, Kevin

  de Silva, Peer

  De Stefano, Mario

  Dillon, C. Douglas

  Dilworth, Bunny

  Dilworth, J. Richardson

  Dixon, Sir Pierson

  Dobrynin, Anatoly

  Dodds, Harold

  Domino theory: in Asia

  Dönhoff, Marion

  Donne, John, Satyre

  Donnelly, J. C.

  Doolittle, James

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Dulles, Allen

  Dulles, John Foster

  death of

  disagreements with Kennan

  and Eisenhower

  and Kennan’s career

  and Kennan’s writings

  and “liberation,”

  Dunn, James C.

  Durante, Jimmy

  Durbrow, Elbridge

  and Kennan’s time in Moscow

  and long telegram

  in Washington

  Dutton, Frederick G.

  Earle, Edward Mead

  Makers of Modern Strategy

  East European Fund

  Eastman Kodak Company

  Eden, Anthony

  Egypt:

  Aswan Dam in

  and Suez Canal

  Einstein, Albert

  Albert Einstein Peace Prize

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  and Bohlen

  and Dulles

  and elections

  health problems of

  and Kennan

  and Marshall

  Eisenhower administration:

  and Cold War

  and Kennan’s career

  and Latin America

  and McCarthyism

  and Soviet Union

  and Suez

  Elbrick, C. Burke

  Emmet, Christopher

  Encounter

  Europe:

  and atomic bomb

  balance of power in

  collective security of see also NATO

  communist parties in

  Eastern

  and Latin America

  and Marshall Plan, see Marshall Plan

  postwar order evolving in

  postwar recovery of

  spheres of influence in

  and Truman Doctrine, see Truman Doctrine
/>   unification of

  Western

  European Advisory Commission (EAC)

  Far Eastern Commission (FEC)

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

  Ferguson, Homer

  Ferris, Walt

  Finland

  First Presbyterian Church, Princeton

  Fischer, Louis

  Fish, Bert

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott:

  The Great Gatsby

  This Side of Paradise

  Follmer, Cyrus

  Ford, Gerald

  Ford, Henry

  Ford Foundation

  Foreign Affairs:

  Acheson article in

  “America and the Russian Future,”

  history of Soviet-American relations in

  “Japanese Security and American Policy,”

  Kennan’s response to Acheson in

  “Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance,”

  updated “X” article for

  “X” article in

  Foreign Policy

  Foreign Service, U.S.:

  diplomacy as practiced in

  formation of

  Kennan’s application to

  Kennan’s career in

  Kennan’s generation of officers in

  Kennan’s posts in, see specific venues

  Kennan’s resignations from

  salaries in

  security breaches in

  socializing in

  training in

  see also State Department, U.S.

  Foreign Service School

  Forrestal, James V.

  and covert activities

  death of

  as Defense secretary

  and Kennan’s writings

  as Navy secretary

  and “X” article

  Fosdick, Dorothy

  France:

  Communist Party in

  and European defense/NATO

  and European unity

  German armies in

  and German occupation

  and Indochina

  U.S. ambassador to

  Francis, David R.

  Franco, Francisco

  François-Poncet, André

  Franco-Russian alliance (1894)

  Frankel, Max

  Franklin, George S., Jr.

  Franks, Sir Oliver

  Free Russia Fund

  Freud, Anna

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friendly, Fred W.

  Frost, Edward and Ida

  Frost, George A.

  Fuchs, Klaus

  Fulbright, J. William

  Gaddis, John Lewis

  Strategies of Containment

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Gascoigne, Sir Alvary

  Gavin, James M.

  Gellhorn, Martha

  Gellman, Barton, Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power

  Geneva, Kennan as vice-consul in

  George, Henry

  Germany:

  anti-Semitism in

  Austria annexed by

  and balance of power

  and Belgium

  Berlin, see Berlin

  covert operations in

  and Czechoslovakia

  and European unity

  Gestapo in

  and Holland

  Kennan’s internment in

  Kennan’s postings to

  Kennan’s return visit (1949) to

  and Marshall Plan

  Nazi party in

  Nazi-Soviet Pact

  and Poland

  postwar occupation of

  Pour le Mérite in

  and Program A

  rise to power

  Social Democrats in

  Soviet sector (East)

  Soviet Union invaded by

  and spies

  surrender of

  unification of

  and war, see World War II

  West German government

  Geyelin, Philip

  Gibbon, Edward

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  on occupying territories

  Gilmore, Eddy

  Gleason, S. Everett

  Gödel, Kurt

  Goering, Hermann

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gogol, Nicolay

  Goldman, Eric

  Goldwater, Barry M.

  Gomulka, Wladyslaw

  Goodman, Constance Moench

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gordievsky, Oleg

  Great Britain:

  and atomic bomb

  and Azores

  and balance of power

  and covert operations

  and European defense/NATO

  and European unity

  failing economy of

  Greece and Turkey

  Lend-Lease aid to

  maritime strength of

  and Marshall Plan

  and Palestine

  and postwar Germany

  and postwar policies

  and Soviet Union

  U.S. ambassador to

  and World War II

  Great Depression

  Greece:

  British withdrawal from

  Communist Party in

  and Truman Doctrine

  Green, Joseph C.

  Green, Marshall

  Green, Theodore Francis

  Greenbaum, Edward

  Grew, Joseph C.

  Griggs, Brandon

  Griggs, Joan, see Kennan, Joan Elisabeth

  Griggs, Larry

  Gromyko, Andrey

  Grow, Robert W.

  Gruenther, Alfred M.

  Gufler, Bernard

  Hácha, Emil

  Hagerty, James

  Haig, Alexander

  Hall, Walter P. “Buzzer,”

  Halle, Louis J.

  Hamburg:

  Kennan’s assignment in

  wartime destruction of

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hammarskjöld, Dag

  Hammer, Armand

  Hankey, R. M. A.

  Hard, Anne

  Hard, Eleanor Van Someren

  Hard William

  Harding, Warren G.

  Harkins, Philip

  Harriman, E. H.

  Harriman, Kathleen

  Harriman, Pamela Churchill

  Harriman, W. Averell

  as ambassador to Soviet Union

  and Cold War

  and end of World War II

  and Kennan

  and London conference (1945)

  and Poland

  and Roosevelt’s death

  and Russian study center

  Soviet investments of

  and Stalin

  and Truman

  and Yalta conference

  Harsch, Joseph C.

  Harvard University

  Hatzfeldt, Hermann

  Hay, John

  Healey, Denis

  Hehir, Father J. Bryan

  Hellman, Lillian

  Helsinki, Kennan’s visits to

  Helsinki accords

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henderson, Loy

  in Moscow

  and Palestine

  in Washington

  Henlein, Konrad

  Hersey, John

  Herter, Christian A.

  Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Hans-Heinrich “Johnnie,”

  Hesse, Hermann

  Hessman, Dorothy

  Hickerson, John D.

  Hill, Harry W.

  Hilldring, John

  Hillenkoetter, Roscoe

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitler, Adolf

  and Chamberlain

  German opponents of

  and Holocaust

  and Nazi-Soviet Pact

  and Poland

  and public opinion

  rise to power

  and succession

  see also Germany

  Ho Chi Minh

  Hochschild, Haro
ld

  Hoffman, Paul G.

  Hoffmann, Stanley

  Holbrooke, Richard

  Holland, German invasion of

  Holmes, John

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

  Holocaust

  Holt, Henry

  Hong Kong

  Hook, Sidney

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopkins, Harry

  Horowitz, Vladimir

  Hotchkiss, Eugene

  House, Edward M.

  Howard, Michael

  Hoxha, Enver

  Huddle, J. Klahr

  Hughes, Emmet John

  Hull, Cordell

  Hungary

  Ickes, Harold L.

  Institute for Advanced Russian Studies

  Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton:

  founding of

  governance of

  and historical scholarship

  Kennan as professor emeritus of

  Kennan’s hundredth birthday celebrated in

  Kennan’s office closed in

  Kennan’s work with

  and McCarthyism

  Oppenheimer as director of

  Iran:

  Soviet troops in

  U.S. hostages in

  Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men

  Israel, establishment of

  Italy:

  Communist Party in

  postwar occupation of

  war declared by

  Ivan the Terrible

  Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop,”

  James, Alfred (grandfather)

  James, Charlie (cousin)

  childhood of

  Kennan’s letters to

  James family

  Jameson, Donald “Jamie,”

  Japan:

  atomic bombs dropped on

  and balance of power

  demilitarization of

  Kennan’s visits to

  and Korea

  postwar occupation of

  surrender of

  in World War II

  Jaruzelski, Wojciech

  Jebb, Gladwyn

  Jenkins, Peter

  Jerusalem, U.S. consulate in

  Jessup, Philip

  Jews:

  and anti-Semitism

  and Israel

  Kristallnacht

  rescue efforts for

  and Zionism

  John Paul II, Pope

  Johnson, Joseph E.

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, Louis A.

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Stuart H.

  Johnson administration

  Joint Chiefs of Staff:

  and atomic weapons

  and China

  and Korea

  and postwar Germany

  Jomini, Antoine-Henri

  Jones, Hilary P.

  Jones, Owen T.

  Journal of American History

  Joxe, Louis

  Kaganovich, Lazar

  Kalinin, Mikhail

  Kallin, Anna

  Kantorowicz, Ernst “Eka,”

  Kaunda, Kenneth

  Kaysen, Carl

  Kelley, Robert F.

  Kellogg, Frank B.

  Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)

  Kennan, Annelise Sørensen (wife)

  and aging

  in Berlin

  children of

  death of

  and the farm

  and George’s career

  and George’s health

  and George’s personality