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George Kennan invented the American post-war policy of “containment” of the Soviet Union. His biography, 30 years in the making, fills in the detail；
乔治·凯南是战后美国对苏“遏制”政策的始作俑者。他这本耗时30年而成的传记，充满了“遏制”政策的点点滴滴；
George F. Kennan: An American Life. By John Lewis Gaddis.
乔治·凯南：大国之策 约翰·加迪斯著。

Three decades ago George Kennan— former American ambassador to Moscow, multilingual diplomat and conceptualiser of “containment”, the heart of his country's foreign policy towards the Soviet Union—agreed to allow an American cold-war historian, John Lewis Gaddis, to serve as his biographer. Kennan had decamped from public service to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton more than 20 years earlier and was already 78 years old. When he began giving Mr Gaddis interviews and stacks of personal papers in 1981, their understanding was that the biography would appear in the presumably not-too-distant future after the elder man's passing.

三十年前，乔治·凯南—前美国驻莫斯科大使，掌握多种语言的外交官，美国对苏外交核心“遏制”政策的始作俑者—同意由美国冷战历史学者约翰·加迪斯为其撰写传记。那时，已78岁高龄的乔治·凯南，早退出政界在普林斯顿高级研究院从事研究已超过二十个年头。1981年起乔治·凯南开始与约翰·加迪斯会面并给予后者大堆个人资料，两人商定乔治·凯南的传记将在其过世后不久的将来面世。

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