The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
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Only Two Americans Held Positions of Great Influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each other's children, and remained lifelong friends. Paul Nitze was a consummate insider who believed the best way to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one. George Kennan was a diplomat turned academic whose famous "X article" persuasively argued that we should contain the Soviet Union while waiting for it to collapse from within. A masterly double biography, The Hawk and the Dove "does an inspired job of telling the story of the Cold War through the careers of two of its most interesting and important figures" (The Washington Monthly). The New York Times - Mark Atwood Lawrence Thompson treats both his subjects critically, at times harshly, and recounts their lives with the broader purpose of illuminating the core debates that drove American policy making. Thompson succeeds admirably in blending biography and intellectual history, painting colorful portraits of complicated men who embodied conflicting strains of American thinking about foreign policy.
Prologue 11 Now Is the Time to Live 72 Charming, Witty, and Urbane 233 A Strange Intensity, a Strange Beauty 434 Deceit, Corruption, Penetration, Subversion 575 Avoid Trivia 696 Architect of the Cold War 837 What We Are About 988 Confined to Korea 1169 The Full Meridian of My Glory 13110 A Fully Conventional Life 14711 Deadly Serious Either Way 17012 About 60/40 19513 The Other Side of the Barricades 21014 This Delegation Is a Disaster 23015 You Constantly Betray Yourself 25016 I Am Worried About Everything 27617 We Tried, We Tried 295Epilogue 314Notes 319Bibliography 359Author's Note 377Acknowledgments 380Index 383
