(8vo) quarter red cloth and boards, dust jacket. First Edition.
Signed and inscribed by Kennan in the year of publication on the front free endpaper.: "For the able assistant of James Perkins - Emily Cook, with the compliments and best wishes of the author - George Kennan, Princeton, 1993." A fine copy.
George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. James Alfred Perkins was the seventh president of Cornell University, from 1963 to 1969.
