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Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of George Kennan examines his participation in the process of making foreign policy and interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical framework. He presents an engaging and lucid account of Kennan's training; his rise to prominence during the late 1940s and his policy failures; and his later role as critic of America's external policy, advocate of détente with the Soviet Union, and proponent of nuclear arms limitation. Mayers also explores Kennan's complicated relationships with such prominent political figures and analysts of his time as Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and Walter Lippmann.

Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of Gaddis's biography. The forum concludes with a reply by Gaddis to all the commentaries, especially those by Bernstein and Stephanson.

Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of Gaddis's biography. The forum concludes with a reply by Gaddis to all the commentaries, especially those by Bernstein and Stephanson. Adapted from the source document.

<p>Este artículo examina las ideas y la influencia de ciudadanos prominentes de Estados Unidos que objetaron la guerra de del presidente James Polk en contra de México, 1846-1848. Las razones para la objeción variaban. Algunos de los disidentes creían que la guerra constituía una agresión injusta. A otros preocupaba sobre todo la adquisición de tierras nuevas que agravaría la lid en curso entre el sur plantacionista y el norte antiesclavista. Todavía otros no querían la guerra porque transformaba a Estados Unidos de una república a un rapaz imperio militarista. Los disidentes no se impusieron. Pero se expresaron en un tono exaltado y constituyeron un precedente importante para los movimientos antibélicos en la historia de Estados Unidos.</p><p> </p>