Description: Presented with an introduction by John Lukacs, the letters in this volume reveal new dimensions in George Kennan's thinking about America and its future and illuminate the political--and spiritual--philosophies that both authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "A fascinating volume. . . . The book poses anew, in an admirably lean and accessible way, a question that has long swirled around Kennan: What were the intellectual underpinnings of his insistence on a restrained, 'realist' foreign policy that shunned bold efforts to remake the world in the American image?"-- "New York Times"