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Nicholas Thompson – November 2, 2009
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul
Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Nicholas Thompson 
Biography
Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at Wired Magazine and
the author of "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the
History of the Cold War," which Henry Holt will publish on September 15,
2009. Prior to Wired, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at Legal Affairs and an
editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written about politics, technology,
and the law for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the
Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York
Observer, and many other publications. He is a panelists on CNN Connects… Read
more http://thehawkandthedove.nickthompson.com/ 
Editorial Reviews
From The Washington
Post
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn After a dinner party at his Georgetown home, Joseph
Alsop, the legendary newspaper columnist, watched George F. Kennan head to his
car and yelled, "You know, George,
the problem with you is that you're a nineteenth century man." Kennan
turned around and countered, "No,
I'm an eighteenth-century man." It was hardly a charge that anyone
would have lodged against Kennan's friend and longtime antagonist Paul Nitze.
Alsop diagnosed Nitze's failings during a bibulous evening at Martin's Tavern
in Washington:
"The trouble with you, Paul, is that
you're just a bureaucrat." Blah, blah, blah … Thompson perceptively
writes, "Too fragile and easily
hurt, he was like Chiron, the wise and immortal centaur of Greek mythology who
is shot by an arrow and develops a wound that never heals." Toward the
end of their lives, however, Nitze and Kennan reconciled their differences as
the Cold War's end prompted Nitze to endorse the abolition of the weapons whose
existence he had once done so much to promote.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/13/books-the-hawk-and-the-dove/
BOOKS: 'The Hawk and
the Dove'
Two giants at odds in
long Cold War struggle By James Srodes
An earlier review of this book that appeared elsewhere was
inappropriately headlined with a question the reviewer never intended to
answer: "Which of These Men Won the Cold War?" Flanking the article
were large photos, one of a benign, formally attired George F. Kennan, the
other of Paul Nitze kitted out in military gear and looking very much like
Hunter S. Thompson off on a coke jag.
Of all the tiresome cliches of American politics, none is
more irritating than the myth of the Cold War and that these two men wrestled
for the nation's strategic soul; the one — Kennan — more intellectually sound,
urging a firm yet peace-oriented counter to Soviet bellicosity; the other —
Nitze — more reactionary, ruthlessly tilting us toward global military
aggression that was too costly in human lives and treasure and netted us
nothing that would not have happened anyway. (read more … )
Wiki sources (just in case you could use it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_war
The Cold War (1945–1991) was
the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic
competition existing after World War II (1939–1945), primarily between the USSR
and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western
world, including the United States. Although the primary participants'
military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed the conflict
through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, a nuclear
arms race,
espionage, proxy
wars, propaganda, and technological competition, e.g. the Space Race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitze
Paul Henry Nitze (January
16, 1907 – October 19, 2004) was a high-ranking United
States government official who helped shape Cold War
defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan
George Frost Kennan
(February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat,
political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment"
and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He
later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the
Western powers.
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