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TWILIGHT OF THE DEFENSE INTELLECTUALS?*

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KuklickBruce, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)

LukacsJohn, George Kennan: A Study of Character (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

MAX PAUL FRIEDMAN*
Affiliation:
Department of History, American University

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