Nitze and Kennan, Hawk and Dove?
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
by Nicholas Thompson
—Reviewed by Adam Fleisher
George Kennan was a brooding academic, a lover of ideas and of history. Paul Nitze was garrulous, an intense man of action. In and out of government throughout the entire Cold War, both were involved in the major debates and events of American foreign policy — from the Marshall Plan through détente and glasnost. Though at times colleagues and collaborators, and though always friendly, they were never close friends.
And …
