From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s RussiaMichael McFaulHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, 528 pp., $30
During a press conference at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport on September 19, 1952, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan, remarked that his isolation in Moscow was worse than what he had endured as an interned diplomat in Nazi Germany following the onset of World War II. Two weeks later, Kennan was expelled from Moscow, becoming the first American Ambassador to be thrown out of Russia in the 230 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Sixty years after that, …read more
Source: The American Interest
