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39
JLG Diary, August 18, November 9, 2003, February 19, 20, 2004, JLG Papers.
40
Lukacs,
Kennan: A Study of Character,
p. 188; JLG Diary, March 6, 2005.
41
GFK interview, December 13, 1995, pp. 23–24. I have edited the passage slightly to avoid repetition, but have in no way changed the substance.
EPILOGUE ● GREATNESS
1
Portions of this epilogue draw on my comments at the Princeton University George F. Kennan Centennial Conference, delivered on February 20, 2004, as well as, more briefly, on the 2005 edition of
Strategies of Containment,
p. 390.
2
Ziegler,
Mountbatten,
p. 701. 1.
3
Kissinger,
White House Years,
p. 135.
4
Kennan, “Experience of Writing History,” p. 214.
5
The Seeley Mudd Library at Princeton University, where Kennan’s papers are housed, is currently arranging a published edition of his diaries under the editorship of Frank Costigliola.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTERVIEWS
a
Adams, Ware:
C. Ben Wright, September 30, 1970, Washington, D.C., Wright Papers.
Ball, George:
JLG, October 12, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Berezhkov, Valentin:
JLG, September 21, 1991, Athens, Ohio.
Berlin, Sir Isaiah:
JLG, November 29, 1992, Oxford, England.
Black, Cyril E.:
JLG, November 24, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Bohlen, Charles E.:
C. Ben Wright, September 29, 1970, Washington, D.C., Wright Papers.
Bowie, Robert R.:
JLG, December 10, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Bradt, Constance Kennan:
Joan Kennan, no date, Joan Kennan Papers.
JLG, November 13, 1982, Rome, N.Y.
Bundy, McGeorge:
JLG, December 17, 1986, New York, N.Y.
Bundy, William P.and Mary A.:
JLG, December 6, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Crawford, William A.:
C.Ben Wright, September 29, 1970, Washington, D.C., Wright Papers.
Cumming, Hugh S., Jr.:
JLG, April 17, 1984, Washington, D.C.
Davies, John Paton and Patricia:
JLG, December 7–8, 1982, Asheville, N.C.
Davies, Richard T.:
Peter Jessup, November 9, 1979, ADST Oral History Project.
Dilworth, J. Richardson
JLG, December 6, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Durbrow, Elbridge:
JLG, September 24, 1982, Washington, D.C.
Elliott, John H.:
JLG, December 7, 1992, Oxford, England.
Fosdick, Dorothy:
JLG, October 29, 1987, Washington, D.C.
Franks, Sir Oliver:
JLG, August 1, 1987, Oxford, England.
Goodman, Constance:
JLG, December 10, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Green, Marshall:
Charles Stuart Kennedy, March 2, 1995, ADST Oral History Project.
Harriman, W. Averell:
JLG, September 24, 1982, Washington, D.C.
Henderson, Loy W.:
Richard D. McKinzie, June 14, 1973, Washington, D.C., Oral History Collection, Harry S. Truman Library.
JLG, September 25, 1982, Washington, D.C.
Hessman, Dorothy:
C. Ben Wright, October 1, 1970, Washington, D.C., Wright Papers.
JLG, September 24, 1982, Washington, D.C.
Hickerson, John D.:
JLG, November 15, 1983, Washington, D.C.
Hotchkiss, Jeannette Kennan:
Joan Kennan, November 2, 1972, Joan Kennan Papers.
JLG, December 21, 1982, Highland Park, Ill.
Kennan, Annelise Sørensen:
JLG, August 26, 1982; September 8, 1983; December 14, 1987; all Princeton, N.J.
Kennan, George Frost:
Harry B. Price, February 19, 1953, Harry B. Price Papers.
Forrest C. Pogue, February 17, 1959, Forrest C. Pogue Papers.
Louis Fischer, March 23, 1965, Oral History Collection, John F. Kennedy Library.
Joan Kennan, no date, Joan Kennan Papers.
JLG, October 31, 1974, Washington, D.C., author’s possession.
JLG, February 2, 1977; August 24–26, 1982; September 7–8, 1983; September 4–5, 1984; December 13, 1987; January 30, 1991; December 13, 1995; June 10, 1996, all Princeton, N.J.
Patricia H. Labalme, August 30, 1989, and February 27, 1990, Institute for Advanced Study Archives.
Kennan, Kent Wheeler:
JLG, December 29, 1982, Austin, Texas.
Kondrashov, Sergey N.:
Vladimir Pechatnov, May 27, 1999, Moscow, Russia.
Link, Arthur S.:
JLG, September 8, 1983, Princeton, N.J.
Mautner, Martha:
JLG, September 24, 1983, Casper, Wyo.
Nitze, Paul H.:
JLG, December 13, 1989, Washington, D.C.
Roberts, Sir Frank:
JLG, March 15, 1993, London, England.
Rusk, Dean
JLG, December 9, 1982, Athens, Ga.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.:
JLG, December 17, 1986, New York, N.Y.
Smith, Janet:
JLG, August 18, 1999, Hartford, Conn.
Taquay, Charles and Kitty:
JLG, March 27, 1991, Washington, D.C.
Taplin, Frank
JLG, December 5, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Thompson, Kenneth W.:
JLG, December 6, 1982, Charlottesville, Va.
Toon, Malcolm:
Henry E. Maddox, June 9, 1989, ADST Oral History Project.
Tucker, Robert C. and Evgenia:
JLG, September 4, 1984, Princeton, N.J.
Tufts, Robert:
JLG, February 5, 1987, Oberlin, Ohio.
Ullman, Richard H.:
JLG, September 30, 1987, Princeton, N.J.
Von Oppen, Beate:
JLG, August 27, 1982, Princeton, N.J.
Willett, E. F:
JLG, June 2, 1989, Bridgeport, Conn.
Worobec, Frances Kennan:
Joan Kennan, no date, Joan Kennan Papers.
JLG, June 28, 1984, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Yakovlev, Nikolay N.:
Vladimir Pechatnov, November 13, 1994, Moscow, Russia.
OFFICIAL FILES
Canada. Ministry of External Affairs. Record Group 25, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
Great Britain. Foreign Office Records, FO 371, National Archives, London.
Russia. Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
United States. Department of State. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
________. ________. Executive Secretariat Files.
________. ________. Inspection Reports, 1906–39.
________. ________. Policy Planning Staff Records [PPS Records].
________. ________. Record Group 59, Decimal File, 1910–29, 1930–39, 1940–44, 1945–49, 1950–54, 1960–63.
________. ________. Record Group 84, Moscow Post Files, 1944–46, 1952.
________. ________. Summaries of the Secretary’s Daily Meetings, 1949–52.
________. Federal Bureau of Investigation. George Kennan File, FBI Records, Washington, D.C.
________. National War College Archives, Washington, D.C.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Acheson, Dean G.: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
________: Sterling Library Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.
Alsop, Joseph, and Stewart Alsop: Library of Congress.
Ayers, Eban A.: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Bohlen, Charles E.: Library of Congress.
________: Record Group 59, National Archives.
Bull, Mimi: privately held.
Bullitt, William C.: Sterling Library Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.
Davies, Joseph E.: Library of Congress.
Dulles, John Foster: Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kans.
Elsey, George: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Forrestal, James V.: Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
Gaddis, John Lewis: privately held.
Halle, Louis J.: Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
Harriman, W. Averell: Library of Congress.
Henderson, Loy: Library of Congress.
Hersey, John: Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Holmes, John W.: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto.
Hopkins, Harry: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.
Hotchkiss, Eugene: privately held.
Hotchkiss, Jeanette Kennan: privately held.
James, Douglas: privately held.
Jessup, Philip: Library of Congress.
Johnson, Lyndon B.: Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Tex.
Jones, Owen T.: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Kennan, George F.: Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
Kennan, Joan Elisabeth: privately held.
Kennan, Kossuth Kent: Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.
Kennedy, John F.: John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass.
Kissinger, Henry A.: Telephone Conversations, 1969–1977, Digital National Security Archive.
Leopold, Richard W.: Northwestern University.
Lippmann, Walter: Sterling Library Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University.
Murphy, Robert: Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Nitze, Paul: Library of Congress.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert: Library of Congress.
Price, Harry B.: George C. Marshall Library, Lexington, Va.
Pogue, Forrest C.: George C. Marshall Library, Lexington, Va.
Strauss, Lewis: Herbert Hoover Library, West Branch, Iowa.
Truman, Harry S.: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Webb, James E.: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Wright, C. Ben: George C. Marshall Library, Lexington, Va.
UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
Hotchkiss, Jeanette Kennan. “Memoirs for Two.” Typescript. Edited by Eugene Hotchkiss, January 4, 1996. JEK Papers.
Kennan, Joan. Unpublished, undated memoir. JEK Papers.
Kennan, Kossuth Kent. Handwritten reminiscences, no date but probably 1933. KKK Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.
Morgan, Michael David. “The Origins of the Helsinki Final Act.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2010.
Schmidt, Michael Reed. “Present at the Creation and Beyond: Thucydides in the Cold War.” Department of History Senior Essay, Yale University, 2008.
Seegert, Frederick C., Jr.
Oakwood Bay Centennial: The Way We Were, 1882

1982.
Typescript, July 1987.
Vogel, Theodore F., Jr.
Sauce for the Gander (Wisconsin Style).
Undated typescript.
Wright, C. Ben. “George F. Kennan, Scholar-Diplomat: 1926–1946.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
Blum, John Morton, ed.
The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942

1946.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Brinkley, Douglas, ed.
The Reagan Diaries: January 1981

January 1989
, 2 vols. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
Bullitt, Orville H., ed.
For the President: Personal and Secret: Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and William C. Bullitt.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., et al.
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
, 21 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970–2001.1.
Crossman, Richard.
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Secretary of State for Social Services, 1968

1970
. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1977.
Etzold, Thomas H., and John Lewis Gaddis, eds.
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–1950
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Ferrell, Robert H., ed.
Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman.
New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
Harlow, Giles D., and George C. Maerz, eds.
Measures Short of War: The George F. Kennan Lectures at the National War College, 1946–47.
Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1991.1.
Institute for Advanced Study.
Report of the Director, 1948–1953
. Princeton, N.J.: Institute for Advanced Study, 1954.
Jensen, Kenneth M., ed.
The Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan, and Roberts “Long Telegrams” of 1946
. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1993.
Karalekas, Anne. “History of the Central Intelligence Agency.” U.S. Congress, Senate, Select Committee to Study Government Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities,
Final Report: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence: Book IV.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976.
Lukacs, John, ed.
George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–46: The Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence
. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
________, ed.
Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
McLellan, David S., and David C. Acheson.
Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Acheson
. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980.

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