Beware Biographers
Jackson Lears: Kennan and Containment, 24 May 2012
George Kennan: An American Life
by John Lewis Gaddis.
Penguin, 784 pp., £30, December 2011,978 1 59420 312 1 Show More
by John Lewis Gaddis.
Penguin, 784 pp., £30, December 2011,
Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
by Frank Costigliola.
Princeton, 533 pp., £24.95, January 2012,978 0 691 12129 1 Show More
by Frank Costigliola.
Princeton, 533 pp., £24.95, January 2012,
“... charged atmosphere of the moment: dualistic moralism prevailed in Washington and London. Yet Frank Costigliola’s Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances makes clear that there was nothing inevitable about the Cold War. There could have been alternatives, Costigliola argues, if Roosevelt had lived and maintained his wartime ... ”
