"So Kennan detested FDR's freedom rhetoric during World War II, and he disparaged the Truman Doctrine that sought to protect "free peoples" everywhere. But the problem ran deeper still. Kennan did not just discount democracy; he disliked it. 'Throughout his life,' Mr. Lukacs notes, 'he regarded the primacy of domestic politics over the true interests of states as wrong and immoral.'"
Josef Joffe reviews John Lukacs's George Kennan: A Study of Character in The Wall Street Journal.
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