George F. Kennan

GEORGE F. KENNAN, formerly a career Foreign Service officer and ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia, is now a retired professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of a number of books on American foreign policy and diplomatic history, including The Nuclear Delusion, The Decline of Bismarck's European Order, and The Fateful Alliance.

- p. 284, The Best American Essays 1986.