In "
The Hawk and the Dove,"
Nicholas Thompson, an editor at Wired
magazine, skillfully contrasts Nitze and Kennan. Thompson, who is
Nitze's grandson, brings a judicial impartiality to the fierce disputes
that raged between the two men. Thompson has enjoyed full access to his
grandfather's archival documents, but perhaps his most impressive
accomplishment is to have mined Kennan's extensive diaries for new
insights. In this important and astute new study, Nitze emerges as a
driven patriot and Kennan as a darkly conflicted and prophetic one.
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