George F. Kennan: “Long Telegram”

Further Reading

Articles

• Costigliola, Frank. “‘Unceasing Pressure for Penetration': Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan's Formation of the Cold War.” Journal of American History 83, no. 4 (March 1997): 1309–1339.

Books

• Gaddis, John Lewis. George Kennan: An American Life. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
• Judge, Edward H., and John W. Langdon, eds. The Cold War: A History through Documents, 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
• Thompson, Nicholas. The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. New York: Henry Holt, 2009.

Websites

• “Containment and Cold War, 1945–1961.” In A Short History of the Department of State. Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/containmentandcoldwar.