George Kennan: A Critical Voice

1982· 58 min·

rawing on a political career that began in the years leading up to WWII and spanned four decades after, the esteemed George Kennan speaks with earnest articulation about the mounting tensions of the Cold War. Kennan's impressive credentials, he was a Pulitzer Prize winning diplomatic historian and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union - established him as the most respected American scholar of Soviet strategic policies, a distinction which becomes quickly validated as he shares thoughts on a moment in World history that he felt left us perched on a "razor's edge of precariousness."