| Kennan wrote a memoir that had enough literary merit to be turned into a play. |
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| Instead, Kennan diplomatically absorbed, without mentioning, that instance of cutthroat competition in his reference to free-enterprise, unguided by federal policy. |
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| Kennan would later complain that his idea was debauched by the Truman administration. |
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| At the age of ninety, Kennan published Around the Cragged Hill. |
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| Kennan had a passionate, lifelong interest in the craft of writing, and the diary was clearly a place to hone his craft. |
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| The Kennan Diaries contains many other keenly observed descriptions of people, places, and events. |
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| Insecurities abounded, and Kennan, it seems, pretty much always had his knickers in a twist about something. |
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| Perhaps even as acerbic a critic as Kennan might have been pleased by the result. |
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| Kennan was the legendary Cold War strategist who authored the doctrine of containment. |
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| Kennan put her up in his version of a Russian dacha in a town in Pennsylvania called, of all things, East Berlin. |
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| Kennan reports its garrison through much of its service was 600 men and a battery of artillery. |
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| American policymakers, including Kennan and John Foster Dulles, acknowledged that the Cold War was in its essence a war of ideas. |
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| Kennan regarded Harriman as too conciliatory in dealing with Stalin. |
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| Kennan described it as the Ultima Thule of Russian civilization. |
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| George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood. |
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