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The Hawk And The Dove Is A Wonderful Idea For A Book, Wonderfully Carried Out. Nicholas Thompson Has Used Illuminating New Material To Present Each Of His Protagonists In A Convincing, Respectful, But Unsparing Way. Even More Valuable, He Has Used The Interactions And Tensions Between Paul Nitze And George Kennan To Bring Much Of American 20th Century Foreign Policy To Life, With Human Richness Ever Present But With The Big Issues Clear In All Their Complexity.

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James Fallows

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The Hawk And The Dove Is A Wonderful Idea For A Book, Wonderfully Carried Out. Nicholas Thompson Has Used Illuminating New Material To Present Each Of His Protagonists In A Convincing, Respectful, But Unsparing Way. Even More Valuable, He Has Used The Interactions And Tensions Between Paul Nitze And George Kennan To Bring Much Of American 20th Century Foreign Policy To Life, With Human Richness Ever Present But With The Big Issues Clear In All Their Complexity.

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