Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
Guest of the Age
By Ronald Steel
Sketches From A Life
by George F. Kennan
Pantheon, 365 pp., $22.95
George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
by David Mayers
Oxford University Press, 402 pp., $32.50
Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy
by Anders Stephanson
Harvard University Press, 380 pp., $35.00
In the first volume of his Memoirs, published more than twenty years ago, George Kennan speaks of the 'discomfort' he feels in the twentieth century, yet concludes that in playing the role of observer 'it helps…to be the guest of one's time and not a member of its household.' In the present volume of his diaries, compiled over a sixty-year period, he returns to that theme. The Western world, he muses in 1959, is composed of many people like himself 'who have outlived their own intellectual and emotional environment' and have become
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