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Frank Costigliola on George Kennan with Kai Bird Thursday, Nov. 9, 6:30 pm the Graduate Center, CUNY

Frank Costigliola on George Kennan in conversation with Kai Bird Thursday, Nov. 9, 6:30 pm The Skylight Room, the Graduate Center, CUNY The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904–2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy―and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola’s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition, whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Always prescient, Kennan in the 1990s warned that the eastward expansion of NATO would spur a new cold war with Russia. An absorbing portrait of an eloquent, insightful, and sometimes blinkered iconoclast whose ideas are still powerfully relevant, Kennan invites us to imagine a world that Kennan fought for but was unable to bring about―one not of confrontations and crises but of dialogue and diplomacy. Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut and a former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. The author or editor of seven books, Costigliola has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. His most recent book is Kennan: A Life between Worlds. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center Kai Bird co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Knopf, 2005), which served as the basis for Oppenheimer, the blockbuster motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan. He has also written biographies of John J. McCloy and McGeorge Bundy—and a memoir, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis (Scribner, 2010). His most recent book is The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (Crown, 2014). His biography of President Jimmy Carter, The Outlier: the Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, was published in 2021 by Crown Books.